11 MARCH 1900 - ALIWAL NORTH

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“Major General Sir E Y Brabant occupies Aliwal North and enters the Free State. Major Henderson and 150 of Montmorency’s Scouts gallop through the main street and make for the Frere Bridge over the Orange River. 

Although holes have been drilled in the bridge piers, they are not yet charged with dynamite and the bridge falls into British hands undamaged after a brisk engagement involving artillery on both sides.

 

The British lose five killed, 17 wounded and four captured while five Boers were wounded”. 

“The Anglo-Boer War: a Chronology” by Pieter G Cloete.