✦ History

Part of Second Boer War

Battle of Diamond Hill

June 11–12, 1900 · Battle of Diamond Hill

Result British victory

Roberts drove Botha back east of Pretoria after the capital fell.

On the map Contemporaries

United Kingdom

Boer republics

United Kingdom
Canada
South African Republic
Orange Free State
John French military commander Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts military commander Ian Hamilton military commander
Louis Botha military commander Koos de la Rey military commander Petrus Johannes Liebenberg military commander Sarel Francois Oosthuizen military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
20,000
Killed
28
Wounded
145
Guns
83
Casualties
c. 30

Units

Roberts's main army (1900)
Boer army in Natal (1899–1900)