31 MARCH 1900 - RAMATHLABAMA NEAR MAFEKING

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“On the 31st he (Plumer) was within six miles of Mafeking but was driven back again to Ramathlabama by a large force of Boers of the Rustenburg and Marico commandos, reinforced by some Boers from Fourteen Streams.

 

His casualties were eight killed, twenty-nine wounded (including himself), and eleven prisoners.” 
Times History, Vol IV, p207.