Battle of Rooiwal
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battle-of-rooiwal-170-5068721
title:
Battle of Rooiwal
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The Battle of Rooiwal was an engagement of the Second Boer War. It took place on 11 April 1902 and resulted in a victory by a British force commanded by Colonel Robert Kekewich over a Boer commando led by Generals Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter and Jan Kemp. The action consisted of a Boer attack on horseback on an entrenched British hillside position in the valley of Rooiwal, near Klerksdorp in the Western Transvaal. The Boers were attempting to break out of a British encircling manoeuvre. Their
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1902 battle of the Second Boer War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rooiwal
date created:
2007-08-20T14:29:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T20:51:14Z
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