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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399443" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The battle of Majuba Hill</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With Major General Sir George Pomeroy in command<br>the Hussars, Gordon Highlanders,60th rifles<br>and a contingent of the naval brigade, <br>climbed Majuba hill<br>and was in battle forced down<br>the back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At dawn the British army<br>had taken the steep hill<br>and the Boer commando’s camp<br>laid on the plain below<br>and Major General Sir George Pomeroy, <br>was just a bit to comfortable<br>with their position on the summit<br>and the Boers were at their mercy, <br>or so they thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Boers saw British soldiers<br>on top of Majuba hill<br>waving the Union Jack<br>and under cover, <br>they started to climb<br>the steep slopes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a February late summer day<br>the Boer commando<br>blended with their farming clothes<br>into the field, into the hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every rock and crevice, <br>every redoubt and counterscarp <br>was a natural hiding place<br>to lay siege on that Majuba hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British infantry wore red jackets<br>and blue trousers <br>and white pith helmets on their heads<br>and was a fine example, <br>of an invading Super power’s military might.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They thought what damage could a <br>citizen force militia in jackets, <br>trousers and slouch hats <br>with hunting rifles do, <br>against a empire’s <br>well trained soldiers? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What they did forget, <br>was they were facing <br>a nation of exceptional men<br>who fought savage men and cruel beasts<br>to make a living<br>and every one a great marksman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In integrity the Boers prayed<br>and believing in God, <br>climbed that hill<br>in broad daylight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">George Pomeroy was dead<br>shot thought the head<br>and accurate shots rang out<br>while fire and movement tactics<br>turned that battlefield into a slaughtering<br>and British soldiers died one by one<br>and tried to flee<br>down the rear slope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All of Great Britain’s victories before<br>never prepared that empire, <br>for the treatment that it got<br>from a bunch of hard-bitten farmers<br>that believed in the power of God<br>and brandished modern rifles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: The battle of Majuba Hill. Battle between the Transvaal (ZAR) republic and Great Britain on 27 February 1881 in South Africa, which won the first Anglo-Boer war. “Three Boer groups were led by Field Cornet Stephanus Roos, Commandant D.J.K. Malan and Commandant Joachim Ferreira against Major General George Pomeroy.” It consisted of about 400-500 Boer farmers in a citizen force militia against 405 British infantry. On the side of the Boers 1 was dead and 5 wounded and of the British 92 were dead (including their General) ,134 wounded and 59 captured.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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