2-756-040 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Reconnaissance in Force with General French's Cavalry Near Colesberg', 1900. John French led a reconnaissance during the Second Boer War and although he did not succeed in capturing Colesberg, he prevented a Boer invasion of the Cape and tied down Boer forces which might have been used elsewhere. From "South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. III", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1900]