Follow
the trail of Gen. Sir George Pomeroy-Colley and his Natal Field Force
as they try to break through the defensive line of Comdt. Gen. Piet Joubert
and his Burghers and enter the Transvaal.
Visit the museum at Fort Amiel, which was the commissariat and starting
point of Gen. Colley's expedition. Inspect the British Camp site and Cemetery
at Mount Prospect where Gen Colley and many of his men are buried.
View the battleground at Laing's Nek where Joubert's Burghers repulsed
Colley's line regiments for the first time, forcing them to return to
their camp at Mt Prospect.
Stroll over the Battlefield of Schuinshoogte where the Burghers of Nicholaas
Smit forced Colley's "show of force" to retreat back to Mt Prospect.
Climb the legendary Majuba, where Comdt. Gen. Piet Joubert's Burghers
inflicted one of the most humiliating defeats the British Army has ever
had to suffer when they were driven off their "impregnable position"
sustaining some 258 casualties to the Burghers 6. (Note this is a stiff
climb up a rough path and the visit takes roughly two and a half hours)
And time permiting visit O'Neill's cottage where the Peace Treaty was
signed.
This tour takes a
full day and the climb up Majuba is not for the faint hearted. The path
is steep and rocky. |