Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… north of Silkaatsnek towards Rustenburg with some 200 men, when his scouts brought information that the Nek was … frontal assault from the north and sent two groups of 200 men to scale both shoulders of the pass, where the British … nephew and his adjutant were both killed, and a known 8 men were wounded. The Boers captured two field-guns, a …