Battle of Driefontein

Battle of Driefontein
Part of Second Boer War
Date10 March 1900
Location
Result British victory
Belligerents
 United Kingdom  South African Republic
 Orange Free State
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom Lord Roberts
United Kingdom Robert George Broadwood
United Kingdom Thomas Kelly-Kenny[1]
Orange Free State Christiaan de Wet
Strength
~6000 men
2 Vickers guns[1]
Casualties and losses
82 killed
342 wounded[2]
102 killed
22 POW[2]

The Battle of Driefontein on 10 March 1900 followed on the Battle of Poplar Grove in the Second Boer War between the British Empire and the Boer republics, in what is now South Africa. In the first half of 1900, the British made an offensive towards the two Boer republic capitals of Bloemfontein and Pretoria.[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b "THE BOER WAR". The Barrier Miner. 13 March 1900.
  2. ^ a b Micheal Clodfelter (9 May 2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-7864-7470-7.

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