'A Picket of 13th Hussars Surprised Near the Tugela River (Hussar Hill)', 1900. The Battle of Tugela (or Thukela) Heights, was a series of military actions lasting from 14 to 27 February 1900 in which General Sir Redvers Buller's British army forced Louis Botha's Boer army to lift the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. From "South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. III", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1900]

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