2-710-842 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lord Roberts Cheered By the Troops on his Arrival at Modder River', (1901). The Battle of Modder River during the Second Boer War took place on 28 November 1899, in what is now Northern Cape province, South Africa. The British were under the command of General Methuen, the the Boers under Generals Cronje and de la Rey. Although the Boer losses were much lighter than those of the British, they were forced to withdraw from their positions. After ''Lord Roberts's Reception by the Men of Lord Methuen's Division at the Modder River Camp', a lithograph published in 1900. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. IV. - To Lord Roberts's Reign in Pall Mall", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]