3-070-899 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Summit of Majuba Hill, with the graves of Captain Maude and soldiers killed in the fight of Feb. 27, 1881. First Boer War. 'The summit of that fatal eminence, overlooking Laing's Neck, on the Transvaal frontier of Natal [now in South Africa], where Sir George Colley and so many gallant British soldiers fell in the disastrous conflict of Feb. 27, is once more represented in our Special Artist's Sketch, showing the simple arrangements that have been made to protect the graves of soldiers buried there, and to mark the exact spot where General Colley was killed. The graves of many of the soldiers are in the square plot of ground which is now inclosed with a rude wall of loose stones, and there is a wall about the mortal resting- place of Captain Maude, which lies nearest to the front. This is in a slight hollow under the north side of the rocky central ridge...A cairn or pile of stones to the right marks where Sir G. Colley fell...Many stones hastily raised as a cover still stand, and the marks of bullets show thickly on some, especially where the 92nd [regiment] made their stand. The bird's-eye view obtained at Natal, the Transvaal, and the Orange Free State is from this position magnificent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.