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Battle of Bothaville
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (September 2014) |
| Battle of Bothaville | |||||||
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| Part of Second Boer War | |||||||
.jpg) Plan of the battle of Bothaville (Battles of the nineteenth century, 1901) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom |
 Orange Free State | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Lt-Col. P. W. J. Le Gallais † | Christiaan de Wet | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 600, considerably reinforced after 4 hours | 800 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 38 killed or wounded | 25 killed, 30 wounded, 114 men, 6 field guns & 1 pom pom captured | ||||||
The Battle of Bothaville (Doornkraal) on 6 November 1900 was a rare defeat of Christiaan de Wet's Boer commando at the hands of a force of British Mounted Infantry (MI).
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