- Pretoria, the Boer
fighters in the
Orange Free
State retreated into the
Brandwater Basin, a
fertile area in the south-east of the Republic. This offered...
- The
Brandwater Basin is the
drainage basin of the
Brandwater River (Afrikaans: Brandwaterrivier), a
tributary of the
Grootspruit River in the south-east...
- the
granary of the Republic.
Crowther retreated to
positions in the
Brandwater Basin guarding the p****es of the
Drakensberg escarpment,
under the higher...
- from its ranks, the
company was
engaged at the
Rhenoster River, in the
Brandwater Basin, and in
various small engagements round Krugersdorp. It was replaced...
- wounded. In July 1900 he
joined General Christiaan de Wet's
Commando in the
Brandwater Basin.
Orange Free
State General Marthinus Prinsloo and his men guarded...
- garrisons.
Battalions were
detached from 12th Bde
during operations in the
Brandwater Basin in July 1900, and Maj-Gen
Clements had
detachments of
Mounted infantry...
-
president Steyn Philip Botha and his
troops managed to
escape from the
Brandwater Basin over the Slabbert's Nek
mountain p**** on 15 July 1900,
while Marthinus...
- 1899.
Later he
worked with
General De Wet in the
eastern Free
State and
Brandwater Basin.
After an
argument with De Wet, he
decided to join the Transvaal...
-
president Steyn to
temporarily command Orange Free
State troops in the
Brandwater Basin in the east of the Free State.
Prinsloo and his men
guarded the...
- (24 July) and the
capture of the main
Orange Free
State force at the
Brandwater Basin (30 July).
Having covered 1,200
miles (1,900 km)
since 28 April...
