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Relief of Elands River

Great Britain · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1900

Horatio Herbert Kitchener16 August 1900

Elands River · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd

Kitchener arrives with a large relief column after the Elands River garrison has resisted nearly two weeks of siege.

Names involved

Horatio Herbert Kitchener

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