2-710-801 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Mafeking: Eloff's Desperate Attack on the Eve of the Relief', (1901). The town of Mafeking, (now called Mahikeng, in South Africa), was besieged during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900. Here Sarel Eloff leads the Boers in an attack on the British-held town. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]