Battle of Spion Kop

The battles of Spion Kop took place from January 23rd to 24th 1900, between the Boer S and the the United Kingdom at the time of the second war of Boers. The battle took seat with 38 km of Ladysmith on the hill of Spioenkop along the river Tugela in South Africa and was a severe defeat for the British even if it did not prevent them from taking again Ladysmith shortly after with the arrival of reinforcements.

Anecdote

Two future personalities served as the British side: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as stretcher-bearer and Winston Churchill as lieutenant of cavalry.

References

Oliver Ransford, Battle Off Spion Kop , (John Murray, London, 1971)
H.G. Castle, Spion Kop: The Second Boer War (Almark, London, 1976)
CHAPTER XV Spion Kop, " The Great Boer War", by Arthur Conan Doyle (pub 1902) ISBN 1-4043-0473-8
Chapter IX The Battle for Spion Kop, " Commando: In Boer Newspaper Off The Boer War" by Deneys Reitz (1929) ISBN 0-571-08778-7, ISBN 0-9627613-3-8

Works

7 volumes The Times History off the War in South Africa , ED L.S. Amery, (pub 1900-1909)
Year Illustrated History off South Africa , Cameron & Spies, Human & Rousseau publishers, 1986 (ISBN 1-86812-190-9).
Military Heritage did has feature butt the bloody Spion Kop battle for has hill off the Boer War (Hermann T. Voelkner, Military Heritage, October 2005, Volume 7, No 2, p 28 to 35, and p. 71), ISSN 1524-8666.
Winston, Churchill, My Early Life . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1930.
Byron Farwell, The Great Anglo-Boer War . New York; To grip & Row, 1976.
Denis Judd, The Boer War . New York: MacMillan, 2003.
William Manchester, The Last Lion . Boston: Little Brown, 1983.
Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War . New York: Random House 1979.
Celida Sandys, Churchill: Wanted Dead gold Alive . New York: Carroll and Graf, 1999.

]

Random links: