The Battle of Majuba: A shocking British debacle 

I love these. A great bank holiday relaxing and looking back at Redcoat history.

Thank you so much for the battlefield tour. Nothing is as good as seeing the battlefield to understand the battle.

Another great film

Very interesting, Chris. I agree that there is little better than walking the ground of a battlefield. It provides a person with a much better understanding of what went on there.

Fascinating video, all new to me. Thanks for your excellent commentary and visuals

This channel should have so many more views. Good stuff.

Most enjoyable episode. Thanks as always

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you

Great episode 👍

Thanks so much!

Thank you ,very enjoyable and interesting to watch .

You are a grand historian. I really enjoy this site and have learned so much from you. Thank you!

Excellent episode, and am really enjoying your channel. You should have many more subscribers IMHO. Can anyone enlighten me as to why the cemetery does not seem to be under the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission?

Absolutely fantastic! I am so glad I found your channel!!

Brilliant stuff..ta!....more please.✌️

Very interesting! Thank you!

another great video. thanks 👍

Brilliant as always.

Throughly enjoyed this episode Chris 👍🏽 looking forward to more on this conflict

Fantastic footage, Chris! One day, 'i hope I'll be able to get back and see so much more of these historic sights!

Dude you make awesome vids. Thank you ✊🇿🇦

Another great post thanks. The landscape could easily be in the Lake District fells or Snowdonia back here in the UK!

Great stuff!

Great video as per usual.

Excellent

Great video indeed, on a much forgotten matter.

Nice one! The lower slopes of Majuba look even more overgrown now than I remember them. It is a haunting place. I can't imagine what Colley intended to achieve with such a rag-tag force. Unless you also haul guns up there, it is of little value, too far from the Nek to effectively engage with small arms fire. Still, I am clearly missing something, as the Boers deemed it important enough to assault without delay. In the end, it was the battle that ended the war, though a change of government in Britain helped as well. Looking forward to your next one!

Sorry I missed this video when you first posted it. Thanks for the reminder. It was really terrific with the actual battle site. Maybe if it's not too much trouble add some different scale maps, even if hand drawn, they would help me with perspective. The thing that got me to watch was your passion of this battle.

Very interesting.

It would seem that the British had a mindset that your battles should won only at close quarters but times had changed, modern rifles made the difference. This was an unnecessary surrender. Churchill wrote that it was part of the decision to engage in the second Boer war as the government was in part still smarting at it. Hard to say whether he was right.

I always wonder if artifacts are just lying about on the surface; cartridge cases, buttons, etc.

A fascinating podcast and for me, an excellent primer as I will be visiting there next week with Ian Knight on a guided group tour. Part of a wider Boer War battlefield trip. Is the film "Majuba Hill of Doves" available with sub-titles? I have watched it on RU-vid and about 25/30 % is in English, but it would be nice to understand the Afrikaans as well.

I'm not a 100% sure but I remember learning in school that the 1st Boer War was just called the Boer War. The 2nd one was called the Anglo boer war. Just thought I'd mention that. Love the videos thanks.

Between Isandlwana, Majuba, and Spion Kop, the British didn't have the best luck with hills in that part of Africa.

One question I had regarding the names of the British soldiers on the plaque, since I delve in genealogy. Is there enough detail in the regimental records to be able to figure out exactly who some of these enlisted men are?

That decade wasn't great for British arms was it? Despite Purchase being abolished. Lions and donkeys again.

More to the point is " Why did Coley go up there "? Why didnt he just attack laings neck?

What a FUBAR the British engineered.

Back in the glorious days of 4 man rooms in a Rifle Company block, I shared a room with a South African Boar.. He constantly banged on about the English crimes and how we invented concentration camps to win a war they would have otherwise won, blah blah blah, and I'd constantly remind him that he'd joined an Infantry Regiment which has a Boar War battle honour Hahaha 😆.. We argued all the time about history, blokes would stand in the corridor and outside our room to listen to us shout at each other about Boar war history and English crimes or victories if you ask me, 😉.. And we were the best of friends.. He left after 5 years I served 14 in total, but in 2019 I went to South African to visit him on his family farm and discovered that he had British war graves on his land from battles past that his family had cared for, for years.. He too me to Mt Majuba and we climbed it to see the graves at the top, we went to Rorkes Drift and Isandlwana and the site of the battle of blood river.. It was a brilliant trip.