Battle of Veertien Strome

Battle of Veertienstrome
Part of the Second Boer War
Date 4–6 May 1900 Location Warrenton, Northern Cape, South Africa 28°05′34.99″S 24°52′36.58″E / 28.0930528°S 24.8768278°E / -28.0930528; 24.8768278 (Battle of Veertienstrome) Result British victory
Belligerents
South African Republic	United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Sarel du Toit Andries Petrus Johannes Cronjé Sarel Oosthuizen Petrus Johannes Liebenberg	Paul Methuen Arthur Paget Archibald Hunter
Strength
1,655 men[1] 5 cannon[2]	2,500 men[3] 26+ cannon[4]
Casualties and losses
11 killed 17 wounded 3 captured	7 killed 38 wounded

The Battle of Veertien Strome (Battle of Fourteen Streams, Battle of Veertienstrome, Vaal River, 4–6 May 1900) was a military engagement in the Second Boer War fought near Warrenton, Northern Cape by Boer troops under Sarel du Toit and British troops under Paul Methuen. Du Toit failed to prevent the British from crossing the Vaal River and entering the South African Republic from the southwest. It was part of Methuen's clearing of the Orange Free State, within the overall military advance on Pretoria.^[5][6]

Fourteen Streams is the broad section of the Vaal River just upstream (to the east) from the railway bridge on the Kimberley-Mafeking line where there are many islands in the river.^[7][8] Sarel du Toit commanded generals Andries Petrus Johannes Cronjé, Jan Celliers, Potgieter, Piet Liebenberg for Griqualand West and Sarel Oosthuizen of Krugersdorp Commando.^[9][10]