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THE TRANSVAAL WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
1880 - 1881

LAING'S NEK, SCHUINSHOOGTE AND MAJUBA
Majuba from Mt Prospect

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.

Fort Amiel
58th Regt. Monument on Laing's Nek
Schuinshoogte
Cemetery on top of Majuba
Cemetery at Mt Prospect