2-625-317 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Hill, South Africa, 1881 (1906). Majuba Hill was the main and decisive battle of the First Boer War. The Boers won the battle and Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley, commander of the British forces, was killed. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. VII. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1906]