DAILY EXPRESS May 19th 1900

History's most heroic defence ends in triumph. The Boers last grip loosened.

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The Siege of Mafeking was an important battle in the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War). The war began in late 1899; President Kruger issued an ultimatum, instructing the British to withdraw their soldiers from the border of the Transvaal. When the British failed to heed the instruction, Kruger's government declared war.

A turning point occurred on 17 May 1900, when British forces, led by Colonel Mahon and Lord Roberts fought their way into the city and lifted the siege. The British forces were dubbed "defenders of Mafeking". The relief is said to have sparked so much jubilation in London that a new word was coined in English, (to "maffick" came to mean "to revel inordinately). Although the war was fought primarily between the British and the Afrikaner soldiers, the battle of Mafeking claimed the lives of 400 Barolong, who fought alongside the British. The British lost were 212 soldiers and over 1000 Afrikaner lives were lost.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/south-african-war-lifting-siege-mafeking

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