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MAJUBA (properly AMAJUBA, Zulu for "the hill of doves")

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 451 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAJUBA (properly AMAJUBA, Zulu for "the hill of doves") , a
mountain
  in northern
Natal
 ,
part
  of the
Drakensberg
  range,rising about 7000 ft. above the sea and over 2000 ft. above the level of the surrounding country. It overlooks the pass through the
Drakensberg
  known as
Laing
 's Nek, is 8 m. S. of the Transvaal border and 18 m. N. of the town of Newcastle. The railway from Durban to Johannesburg skirts the base of the
mountain
 . During the Boer War of 188o-81 Majuba was occupied on the night of the 26th of
February
  1881 by some 600 British troops under Sir George
Pomeroy
 
Colley
 . On the following morriing the hill was stormed by the Boers under Piet
Joubert
  and the British routed,
Colley
  being among the slain.


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