2-756-151 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Historic Battlefield: January-February 1881, and May 1900', 1901. The Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881 was the final and decisive battle of the First Boer War when the Transvaal won its independence back from the British. During the Second Boer War the British built a concentration camp in Volksrust, where many Boer women and children died. From "South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. VI", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]