gun-kopje

Updated: May 23, 2025

They were unable to remove the guns which they had taken, because all the horses had perished. 'I actually thought, says one officer who saw them ride away, 'that I had made a mistake and been fighting our own men. They were dressed in our uniforms and some of them wore the tiger-skin, the badge of Damant's Horse, round their hats. The same officer gives an account of the scene on the gun-kopje.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War