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MONUMENT, ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE FALLEN BRITISH AT SCHUIN'SHOOGHTE. MAJUBA IN [BACKGROUND]
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MONUMENT, ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE FALLEN BRITISH AT SCHUIN'SHOOGHTE. MAJUBA IN [BACKGROUND]
Description
Afrikaans: Monument vir Britse gesneuweldes in die Slag van Schuinshoogte in die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog. Schuinshoogte is suidoos van Majuba, en oos van Newcastle geleë.
English: Monument for fallen British soldiers at the Battle of Schuinshoogte/Ingogo in the Colony of Natal, during the First Boer War. "Schuinshoogte", Dutch for "skew height", is located southeast of Majuba hill on the bank of the Ncandu River.
Date 1887
date QS:P571,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
British Library HMNTS 10097.df.30.
Notes The Battle of Schuinshoogte, also known as Battle of Ingogo, was on 8 February 1881.
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Image extracted from page 477 of Incwadi Yami; or, Twenty years' personal experience in South Africa, by MATTHEWS, Josiah Wright. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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Object location27° 43′ 57″ S, 30° 00′ 04″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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A monument in the Colony of Natal which commemorates fallen British troops of the First Boer War, with Majuba hill in the background at top left

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27°43'57.000"S, 30°0'4.000"E

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