4 Day Tour - Anglo Boer War - Port
Elizabeth to Bloemfontein
Rate R2250.00 Per Person per Day - Min 2
Persons
(Includes entrance fees, accommodation and meals.)
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Battlefield tours -
Day 1: - Port Elizabeth
 View
Horse Memorial and PAG War Memorial in St George's Park. Travel by
road from Port Elizabeth.
View Uitenhage
Concentration Camp and discuss concentration camp issue. View Smuts'
Commando graves at Kariega Siding.
Discuss Boer invasions
of the Cape Colony. View Jansenville Fort. Proceed to Aberdeen and
visit site where Captain Oates, "that very gallant gentleman" of
Scott's Antarctic Expedition, was wounded.
Visit Jack Baxter's
grave and discuss execution of Boer prisoners for wearing khaki.
Proceed to Graaff-Reinet for night stop.
Battlefield tours -
Day 2: - Graaff Reinett
Visit Bouwershoek
where Lotter's Commando was captured on 5 September 1901. Discuss
the execution of Cape Rebels.
Visit the Gideon
Scheepers Memorial and discuss his capture, and subsequent
execution. Visit Burger Memorial. Discuss guerrilla operations in
district from vantage point in Valley of Desolation National Park.
Visit Andries
Pretorius Monument and discuss role of Eastern Cape Dutch colonists
in the Great Trek and the subsequent establishment of the Boer
republics.
Travel by road to
Cradock. Stop at Bethesda Road and discuss skirmishes in the
vicinity on 18 February 1901 and 10 August 1901.
Visit the graves of
Cape Rebels in the Cradock cemetery. Visit Modderfontein, the site
of the skirmish between the 17th Lancers and Smuts' Commando on 17
September 1901. Night stop at Blanco Nature Reserve.
 Battlefield
tours - Day 3: - Stormberg
Battlefield tour of
Stormberg, the first of the Black Week battles on 9 December 1900.
Night stop in Black Eagle Nature Reserve.(Picture on the right of
Lieutenant General Gatacre, known as "Backacher" to the troops.)
Battlefield tours -
Day 4:- Aliwal North
 Proceed
by road to Aliwal North. Discuss skirmish between Fouche's Commando
and Connaught Rangers near Jamestown on 14 July 1901.
Visit Aliwal North
Concentration Camp. Proceed to Bloemfontein.
Visit Vrouemonument
and War Museum of the Boer Republics.
Tour ends.
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