Die Eerste Anglo Boere Oorlog Saamgestel uit 2 Klankbane 1880 – DIE EERSTE VRYHEIDSOORLOG breek uit tussen Transvaal en Brittanje a.g.v. die ANNEKSASIE van die Z.A.R. deur Brittanje. Shepstone en Carnavon wou die hele S.A. in ‘n federasie onder die Britse vlag verenig. Die Boere behaal by AMAJUBA ‘n groot oorwinning. PRESIDENT JAN BRAND van die  VRYSTAAT tree […]

Following the Boer declaration of independence for the Transvaal in 1880 the British suffered a series of disastrous defeats in attempting to regain the territory. On 20 December 1880, Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Robert Anstruther and elements of his regiment, the 94th, marched from Lydenburg to Pretoria, the regiment’s band leading the column playing the popular song […]

The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit was the first major clash of the First Boer War. It was a battle between a British army column and a group of Boers, fought by the Bronkhorstspruit River, a few miles east of the town of Bronkhorstspruit, Transvaal on 20 December 1880. A column of British soldiers consisting of six […]