Significant1899 – 1900 · 1 year

Siege of Kimberley

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Kimberley

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Four-month Boer siege of the diamond town with Cecil Rhodes inside, relieved by French's cavalry.

Belligerents2

British Empire
Orange Free State

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1900)Orange Free State

Conflict graph

PART OFBoer Wars

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Kimberley (1899 – 1900). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/siege-of-kimberley · Sources & methodology