low-kopjes

Updated: May 25, 2025

'Oh, we may imagine them saying, 'if you propose to go that way, things are not so bad after all. So they returned to the number of about nine thousand burghers, and manned the trenches of the Pieters position, with the result that Wynne's Lancashire Brigade, which was the first to cross, soon found itself engaged in a sharp action among the low-kopjes, and suffered a hundred and fifty casualties, including its General, before dark.

Winston Churchill - London to Ladysmith via Pretoria