The Battle of Colenso was the third and final battle fought during the Black Week of the Second Boer War. It was fought between British and Boer forces from the independent South African Republic and Orange Free State in and around Colenso, Natal, South Africa on 15 December 1899.
Inadequate preparation, lack of reconnaissance and uninspired leadership led to a British defeat.
The BattleofColenso was the third and final battle fought during the Black Week of the Second Boer War. It was fought between British and Boer forces...
87, 129–30 Colenso, pp. 264–66, 273–75 "The Battleof Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879". Lock, p. 151 "12 Facts About the Battleof Isandlwana"...
first attempt at crossing the river was the BattleofColenso. From the British point of view, the battle was a fiasco. On the western flank the British...
chance of infantry reinforcement they were ordered by the General to withdraw. The attack on Colenso having failed Buller moved the focus of his army...
1899, Buller made a frontal assault on the Boer positions at the BattleofColenso. The result was a heavy British defeat. Over the next few weeks, Buller...
and Mafeking under siege, and won victories at Colenso, Magersfontein and Stormberg. Increased numbers of British Army soldiers were brought to Southern...
Boer War saw attempted application of bombardment as an alternative to the use of ground forces. In most battles fought during the conflict this was...
Colenso may refer to: Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso, wife of William Colenso Frances Colenso (1849–1887), historian, daughter of John William Colenso Harriette...
wounded. Colenso 1880, p. 448 gives 18 killed, 85 wounded Hall 1978 quotes the London Standard reporting 473 counted dead The report "The Battleof Ulundi"...
pressed for his Indian stretcher bearers to be allowed to serve. At the BattleofColenso on 15 December, the NVAC removed the wounded from the front line and...
dug in north of the Tugela to hold off the relief force. On 15 December 1899, the first relief attempt was defeated at the BattleofColenso. Temporarily...
front lines. They were auxiliaries at the BattleofColenso to a White volunteer ambulance corps. At the Battleof Spion Kop, Gandhi and his bearers moved...
at the BattleofColenso when British troops commanded by Sir Redvers Buller attempted to cross the Tugela River to relieve the besieged city of Ladysmith...
Ladysmith, Buller's army was defeated by Botha and his Boer army at the battlesofColenso and Spion Kop. British casualties soared to 3,000 men, while the Boers...
mortally wounded at the BattleofColenso. Like Buller, Roberts at first intended to make a direct thrust on the Boer capitals of Bloemfontein and Pretoria...
Fair. There he participated in twice-daily re-enactments of the BattleofColenso and the Battleof Paardeberg. The 1904 Marathon was a largely informal affair...
78 members of the British Armed Forces for action during the Second Boer War. The Victoria Cross is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the...
communication, and was then disbanded by the end of 1900 following the end of conventional warfare. At the BattleofColenso, the initial attempt to relieve Ladysmith...
rank of captain in the artillery. Duquesne was captured by the English at the BattleofColenso, but escaped in Durban. During the British invasion of Pretoria...
There were three battles at the Tugela River won by the Boers: BattleofColenso, Battleof Vaal Krantz, and Battleof Spion Kop, so one of these is intended...
aggression and of self-defence both within South Africa and against it. It includes the history ofbattles fought in the territories of modern South Africa...
British suffered three defeats: the battlesof Stormberg in the Cape Midlands and Colenso in Natal, as well as the Battleof Magersfontein. The defeat at Magersfontein...
On 15 December 1899, at the BattleofColenso, South Africa, Captain Schofield with several others tried to save the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries...