Battle of Helvetia | |||||||
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Part of the Second Boer War | |||||||
A 4.7 inch naval gun similar to the Lady Roberts gun, captured at the Battle of Helvetia, South Africa, on 29 December 1900. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Transvaal Orange Free State | Britain | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ben Viljoen Chris Muller | Major Stapleton Lynch Cotton | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3 fallen, 5 wounded | 11 fallen, 29 wounded, 235 captured[1] |
The Battle of Helvetia was an engagement in the Second Boer War fought by Boer and British troops on 29 December 1900 in Helvetia 10 km north of Machadodorp, eastern South African Republic.