3-070-782 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Transvaal War: sketch plan of the Battle of Majuba Hill, from above Mount Prospect Camp, [South Africa], 1881. Diagram showing the British being defeated in the First Boer War, 'drawn as seen from the hill above the Mount Prospect Camp...1. Enemy coming round hill to attack retreating party; 2. Enemy in possession of Majuba Mountain doing ditto; 3. Enemy in Dongas & side of hill...ditto; 4. Our troops retreating down side of hill under heavy fire; 5. Shell fired from Mount Prospect Camp, about 3 miles distant; 6. Ledge of rocks; 7. Hussars Picket & some officers of 60th Rifles & others looking on at the Battle; 8. 15th Hussars retreating; 9. Falls (small); 10, Laing's Neck'. Also shown are O'Neil's Farm, cattle laager, footpaths and roads. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.