The Battle of Colenso, 15 December 1899

15 December 2nd brigade division 2nd Royal 66th Batteries 6th Brigade 75mm Creusot advance African guide Anglo-Boer War sites armoured train army Battle of Colenso battlefield Boer force Boer positions Boer trenches Boksburg Bridle Drift brigade will move British force British guns Brynbella Hill burghers Captain captured Cartographic Unit casualties Cemetery Chieveley Colenso 15 Colenso Koppies cross the Thukela December Buller Dundonald Durban Light Infantry enfilade Ermelo Estcourt field guns Frere front Gilbert Torlage gunners Hart Hildyard's Hlangwane Hlangwhane Hill iron bridge Johannesburg Kilometres kopjes north Krugersdorp KwaZulu-Natal lads Light Infantry Long's guns Louis Botha Major-General Hart's maps markers metres Middelburg Mooi River mounted brigade Natal Naval Gun Hill opened fire ordered Police prepare the crossing present camping ground prong reconnaissance Regiment relieve Ladysmith right flank Royal Field Artillery six naval guns soldiers South Africa Soutpansberg commandos Spioenkop Standerton Thukela River troops Tugela Vryheid Wakkerstroom Willow Grange wounded