Military information.

Jameson raid 

How the siege could last for so long

Boer defense.

Typical British Soldier 

Mafikeng Siege a Party or War 

Damage done in town.

What difference did the siege of Mafikeng made to the whole war ?

Life in Mafikeng Town

Baden Powel

List of Soldiers

Photos1   Photos2 

Landmarks

First shots at Kraaipan

Canon kopje.

Warrens fort.    

Kanonkoppie

   
General information

Generals in die war.

Iit is good to recapture some  of the detail of the Jameson raid as it started just north of Mafikeng

During the New Year weekend of 1895/6 the fiasco of the Jameson Raid took place- Three hundred and fifty police and volunteers left Pitsane Potlogo, 50 km north of Mafeking, where they had been encamped for some time under Dr Jameson, and crossed the Transvaal border. They were joined at Ottoshoop by 120 men from the recently disbanded Bechuanaland Border Police who had been stationed at Mafikeng. Jameson started without the approval of Rhodes or his collaborators in Johannesburg and his movements were known lo the Transvaal authorities from the time the force left Ottoshoop. He was finally forced to surrender near Randfontein to commandant Piet Cronje,