Majuba Gedenkboek by Dr J.H. Breytenbach and Col. Dr Jan Ploeger

This Edition is limited to 2000 numbered copies. This is number 1535. Signed by both authors the reknowned Dr J.H. Breytenbach and Col. Dr Jan Ploeger on title page.

Majuba Gedenkboek : Uitgegee ter Herdenking van die Boere se Stryd ter Verkryging van Hul Onafhanklikheid n Eeu Gelede – Breytenbach, J. H. ; Ploeger, Jan

Hardcover, ISBN 9780869841846
Publisher: CUM Books, 1980

Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Slight foxing to the first few pages.The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

The Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881 was the final and decisive battle of the First Boer War that was a resounding victory for the Boers. The British Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley occupied the summit of the hill on the night of 26–27 February 1881. Colley's motive for occupying Majuba Hill, near Volksrust, now in South Africa, may have been anxiety that the Boers would soon occupy it themselves, since he had witnessed their trenches being dug in the direction of the hill.

The Boers believed that he might have been attempting to outflank their positions at Laing's Nek. The hill was not considered to be scalable by the Boers for military purposes and so it may have been Colley's attempt to emphasise British power and strike fear into the Boer camp.

The battle is considered by some to have been one of the "most humiliating" defeats suffered by the British in their military history.