Battle of Belmont

Overview

The Battle of Belmont was an engagement of the Second Boer War on 23 November 1899, where the British under Lord Methuen assaulted a Boer position on Belmont kopje.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Significance

The Battle of Belmont was an early engagement in the Second Boer War involving Lord Methuen's British force of approximately 8,000 against a Boer force under Jacobus Prinsloo numbering around 2,000. British casualties of 397 against Boer losses of approximately 100 suggest the engagement was costly relative to the size of the defending force. Beyond the force sizes and casualty figures, the supplied sources do not provide sufficient detail about the battle's operational outcome or its effect on the broader campaign to support further characterization.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (2)