Although encountering severe fire, a massed cavalry …
Years: 1900 - 1900
February
Although encountering severe fire, a massed cavalry charge splits the Boer defenses on February 15, opening the way for French to enter Kimberley in the evening, ending its one hundred and twenty-four days' siege.
Locations
People
- Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
- Frederick Russell Burnham
- George Francis Robert Henderson
- J. B. M. Hertzog
- John Denton Pinkstone French
- Louis Botha
- Neville Bowles Chamberlain
- Paul Kruger
- Paul Sanford Methuen
- Piet Cronjé
- Redvers Buller
Groups
- Boers
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
- Orange Free State, Republic of the (Boer Republic)
- South African Republic (the Transvaal) (restored)
