Lydenburg Commando information

Lydenburg Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the...

served as acting field cornet. He was elected as commandant of the Lydenburg Commando in 1885. When the Second Boer War started, he served as commandant-general...

The Boer Commandos or "Kommandos" were volunteer military units of guerilla militia organized by the Boer people of South Africa. From this came the term...

government. Maritz's forces occupied Keimoes in the Upington area. The Lydenburg commando under General De Wet took possession of the town of Heilbron, held...

the railway line, in a semi-circle around the town of Belfast, the Lydenburg commando was to be found on the farms Spitskop, Zuikerboschkop and Langkloof...

Army Hospital Corps, were attacked by 250 Boer commandos at Bronkhorstspruit whilst marching from Lydenburg to Pretoria. They suffered 156 casualties. This...

Lydenburg Commando, Carolina Commando was formed around 1859. During the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek the first engagements of the Carolina Commando included:...

African Republic. Maritz occupied Keimoes in the Upington area. The Lydenburg commando under General De Wet took possession of the town of Heilbron, held...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

challengers. A distinguished member of the Volksraad and commandant of the Lydenburg Commando, Schalk Willem Burger was popular with the British and the capitalists...

roughly 250 men on a 188-mile (303 km) journey from Lydenburg back to Pretoria. A similar-sized Boer commando force, led by Francois Gerhardus Joubert, was...

The Volksraad approved of the scheme and thus hired the services of the Lydenburg Volunteer Corps, which were constituted under the command of a Prussian...

Fourie (Lydenburg, 17 June 1858 – Pietersburg, 15 August 1943) was an Anglo-Boer War commander of the Middelburg and Johannesburg Commandos and later...

attack. Help was sent for and received from a Lydenburg Boer commando, led by one Abel Erasmus. The commando drove off Mswati's regiments, and freed Somquba...

Republic. Fourie replaced Schalk Burger and led the Commandos from the districts of Carolina, Lydenburg, Heidelberg (including Boksburg), Standerton and...

Boer War when a Boer Commando ambushed a British army column, 94th Regiment of Foot, near the present town en route from Lydenburg to Pretoria.: 296  There...

troops between them, including irregulars with as few as fifty soldiers at Lydenburg in the east which Anstruther had just left. Being isolated, and with so...

Winburg-Potchefstroom (1844–1848) Republic of Klip River (1847–1848) Republic of Lydenburg (1849–1860) Utrecht Republic (1852–1858)  South African Republic (1852–1877...

and his son, Piet Pretorius, was appointed as commandant general of the Lydenburg and Zoutpansberg districts in his stead. There were some disputes over...

as a common burgher. He was made an assistant commander of the Ermelo Commando, and after the Battle of Colenso (15 December 1899) was promoted by Louis...

cavalry drove it away on 26 August. After the battle it probably escaped to Lydenburg and then into the nearby bushveld. Gun B. This gun was placed on the farm...

Pretorius' supporters were, and regionalist factions in the Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg and Utrecht districts that viewed any central authority with suspicion...

professed authority and sovereignty over the local chiefdoms, though Lydenburg and Utrecht now accepted the central administration. By 1865 tensions...

Liebenberg (Potchefstroom), Chris Muller (Boksburg), D. J. Schoeman (Lydenburg) and S. P. du Toit (Wolmaransstad). The Orange Free State was represented...

of the Emakhandzambili chiefs. Mswati made land grants in 1855 to the Lydenburg Republic though the wording of the sale is vague. The Boers at the time...

Sekhukhune managed to defeat the army on 1 August 1876. Another attack by the Lydenburg Volunteer Corps was also repulsed. On 16 February 1877, the two parties...

the south east and a second under Ben Viljoen in the north east around Lydenburg. Botha's forces were particularly active, raiding railways and British...

historical and archaeological evidence contrary to the myth, for example the Lydenburg heads, the Bantu-speaking peoples' Kingdom of Mapungubwe (c.1075–c.1220)...