Battle of Bothaville

Battle of Bothaville
	Part of Second Boer War
	; Plan of the battle of Bothaville (Battles of the nineteenth century, 1901)
Date	6 November 1900
Location	Bothaville, South Africa27°23′S 26°37′E
Result	British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom	Orange Free State
Commanders and leaders
Lt-Col. P. W. J. Le Gallais †	Christiaan de Wet
Strength
600, considerably reinforced after 4 hours	800
Casualties and losses
38 killed or wounded	25 killed, 30 wounded, 114 men, 6 field guns & 1 pom pom captured

The Battle of Bothaville (Doornkraal) on 6 November 1900 was a rare defeat of Christiaan de Wet's Boer commando at the hands of a force of British Mounted Infantry (MI).

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