Battle of Bothaville

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Battle of Bothaville
Part of Second Boer War
Plan of the battle of Bothaville (Battles of the nineteenth century, 1901)
Date 6 November 1900 Location Bothaville, South Africa 27°23′S 26°37′E / 27.383°S 26.617°E / -27.383; 26.617 (Battle of Bothaville) Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom	Orange Free State
Commanders and leaders
Lt-Col. P. W. J. Le Gallais  †	Christiaan de Wet
Strength
600, considerably reinforced after 4 hours	800
Casualties and losses
38 killed or wounded	25 killed, 30 wounded, 114 men, 6 field guns & 1 pom pom captured

The Battle of Bothaville (Doornkraal) on 6 November 1900 was a rare defeat of Christiaan de Wet's Boer commando at the hands of a force of British Mounted Infantry (MI).