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SPION KOP

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 692 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPION KOP , a
mountain
  in
Natal
  on the north side of the Tugela River, and 24 M. W.S.W. of
Ladysmith
 . It is celebrated as the
scene
  of a
battle
  (Jan. 24, 1900) in the Transvaal War, in which the British forces under Sir Redvers Buller were defeated by the Boers (see TRANSVAAL and
LADYSMITH
 ). The Spion Kop incident led to much controversy; for an admirable elucidation of the facts see The Times History of the War in
South
  Africa. The name itself (Dutch for " Look-out Hill ") is fairly common.as a
place
 -name in
South
  Africa.


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