"Floreat Etona"

by Lady Elizabeth S Butler

Plate mark size: 30 x 27 inches - (approx 76
x 69 cm)

Battle of Laing's Nek

War: First Boer War

Date: 28th January 1881.

Place: In the northern tip of Natal near to the Transvaal Border, in South Africa.

Combatants: British against the Boers.

Generals: Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley and Commandant General P. J. Joubert.

Size of the armies: 1,200 British troops against 3,000 Boers.