Battle of Rooiwal
The Battle of Rooiwal was an engagement of the Second Boer War. It took place on 11 April 1902 and resulted in a victory by a British force commanded by Colonel Robert Kekewich over a Boer commando led by Generals Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter and Jan Kemp.
| Battle of Rooiwal | |||||||
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| Part of Second Boer War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| United Kingdom | South African Republic | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Robert Kekewich Ian Hamilton Henry Rawlinson |
Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter † Jan Kemp | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,000 | 1,700 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| c.70 killed and wounded | 230, of whom: 50 dead, 130 wounded, 50 men, 3 field guns and a pom pom captured | ||||||
The action consisted of a Boer attack on horseback on an entrenched British hillside position in the valley of Rooiwal, near Klerksdorp in the Western Transvaal. The Boers were attempting to break out of a British encircling manoeuvre. Their attack was repulsed at some cost to the Boers in killed and injured.
This was the end of the war in the Western Transvaal and also the last major battle of the Anglo-Boer War.
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