A diamond mine in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, circa 1900. Location of the Siege of Kimberley which took place during the Second Boer War
Illustration from Cassell's History of England, pub circa 1905. Info from wiki: The Siege of Kimberley took place during the Second Boer War at Kimberley, Cape Colony (present-day South Africa), when Boer forces from the Orange Free State and the Transvaal besieged the diamond mining town. The Boers moved quickly to try to capture the British enclave when war broke out between the British and the two Boer republics in October 1899. The town was ill-prepared, but the defenders organised an energetic and effective improvised defence that was able to prevent it from being taken.
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