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  • Battle of Elands River (1900)
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Strength
  • 500(xsd:integer)
  • 2000(xsd:integer)
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Partof
  • the Second Boer War
Date
  • --08-16
Commander
Align
  • right
Caption
  • A soldier from the 3rd New South Wales Bushmen at Elands River a year after the battle
Width
  • 25.0
Casualties
  • 4(xsd:integer)
  • 12(xsd:integer)
  • Unknown
Result
  • Boer attack repulsed, British garrison relieved
combatant
  • * * * * * * * Rhodesia * *
Place
  • Brakfontein Drift
Source
  • —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, cited in Odgers
Conflict
  • Battle of Elands River
Quote
  • This stand at Brakfontein on the Eland River appears to have been one of the finest deeds of arms of the war. Australians have been so split up during the campaign that though their valour and efficiency were universally recognised, they had no single large exploit which they could call their own. But now they can point to Elands River as proudly as the Canadians at Paardeberg...they were sworn to die before the white flag would wave above them. And so fortune yielded, as fortune will when brave men set their teeth...when the ballad makers of Australia seek for a subject, let them turn to Elands River, for there was no finer fighting in the war.
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