3-070-775 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

War sketches in South Africa: 1. Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal. 2. Heidelberg, in the Transvaal. 3. Basuto War: camp near Mafeteng - an alarm, 1881. British Army - First Boer War. 'Our View of the town of Pretoria, and that of Heidelberg, which is situated on the road to Pretoria from the Natal frontier, are from Sketches by Captain W. J. Fowler, R.A. The encampment in front of Pretoria, at the time when the sketch was taken in 1879, was that formed by Sir Garnet Wolseley, with three infantry regiments, one of cavalry, and a battery of artillery. At Heidelberg, also, there were then a squadron of cavalry and a company of infantry, with two guns, and a redoubt was also built at this place...Our Illustration of the Basuto war represents the scene in the Camp at Mafeteng when the alarm was sounded, the pickets having been driven in by a night attack. [The sketch was] taken by Bugler Long, of the Capetown (Duke of Edinburgh's Own) Volunteers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.