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I have been working on the map of Mafeking from the Times History, volume 4, this weekend.

Here is the map showing the defences

Isolating the Boer cordon, the Brickfields to the east of the town can be see as the point closest to the town

The route taken by Eloff along the banks of the Molopo on 12 May 1900, through the Stadt in three columns with one column capturing the BSAP HQ for a few hours before the situation reversed.

In April, Sotherby's sold a letter written from BP in Mafeking to Colonel Kekewich in Kimberley, 22 November 1899.

Only the front page of the letter is shown.

It reads:

Mafeking: 22.11.99

Dear Kekewich,

We have not heard of you since 20th ult but take no news as good news and hope you have continued as you began in drubbing them. Here they have closed round us - as a respectful distance bien entendu - and are doing us no harm. We are lying low under it waiting till we see another chance of going at them. In the few scrapes we have had we have been exceedingly lucky in our bags - and from all accounts and computations, allowing for exaggerations etc, - the total of killed is not under 100, and the wounded are allowed [?] 450, and they have accordingly nick-named Mafeking as 'very vicious'.

We have plenty of food, but after the siege is over it will take some time for foodstuffs to get up here and ...




Pictures courtesy of Sotherby's

The images from Edward Ross's Siege views of Mafeking were posted earlier in this thread.

An original version of his book is being auctioned soon with a reserve of US$180.

Maribogo, near Mafeking, where the Boers fired on a Red Cross train

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-pictures-of-the-war