Military conflict in present-day South Africa (1880–1881)
First Anglo–Boer War
Part of the Boer Wars
"Clockwise from left: Aftermath of the Battle of Elandsfontein, The Boers' method of fighting" in The Illustrated London News; British in action during the Battle of Majuba; British Cavalry charges during the Battle of Laing's Nek"
Date
20 December 1880 – 23 March 1881 (3 months and 3 days)
Location
South African Republic (Present-day South Africa)
Result
Boer victory
Pretoria Convention
British recognition of the South African Republic, subject to British sovereignty
Belligerents
South African Republic
British Empire
Natal Colony
Transvaal Colony
Commanders and leaders
Piet Joubert Nicolaas Smit Frans Joubert Piet Cronjé
William Gladstone
George Colley † Walter Long William Bellairs George F. Gildea
Casualties and losses
24 killed 50 wounded
417 killed 455 wounded
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t
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First Boer War
Bronkhorstspruit
Rustenburg
Marabastad
Lydenburg
Elandsfontein
Laing's Nek
Schuinshoogte
Rooihuiskraal
Majuba Hill
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t
e
Scramble for Africa
South Africa (1879)
South Africa (1880)
Tunisia (1881)
Sudan (1881)
Egypt (1882)
Wassoulou (1883)
Madagascar (1883)
Eritrea (1885)
Equatoria (1886–89)
Somalia (1888–1924)
Congo (1895)
Dahomey (1890)
Mashonaland (1890)
Katanga (1891−92)
Dahomey (1892)
Matabeleland (1893)
Morocco (1893–94)
Wassoulou (1894)
Ashanti (1895)
South Africa (1895)
Ethiopia (1896)
Matabeleland (1896)
Zanzibar (1896)
Benin (1897)
Wassoulou (1898)
Chad (1898)
Fashoda (1898)
South Africa (1899)
Somaliland (1900)
Aro (1901)
Angola (1902)
Namibia (1904)
Tanganyika (1905)
Morocco (1905–06)
South Africa (1906)
Morocco (1907–34)
Mufilo (1907)
Morocco (1909)
Ouaddai (1909)
Morocco (1911)
Libya (1911–12)
South Africa (1914)
Darfur (1916)
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Piet Joubert
George Colley †
