Featured battle : Ingogo

Part of British Victorian Colonial 'Small Wars'

Date : 08 February 1881

General Colley launched an attack on Boer troops threatening his lines of communication in the area of the Ingogo river on the Natal/Transvaal border. With 4 companies of the 3rd Battalion, 60th Rifles and two 9 pounder guns he advanced up the slope of a plateau towards Boer fire. It was a hopeless situation since the plateau was surrounded on three sides by Boer reinforcements as soon as the British reached the top and the two field guns could make little impression on the opposing marksmen in cover. After spending most of the day in this precarious position, with no supplies and little reinforcement, and fire occasionally coming from behind as well as in front and flanks, Colley decided to retreat under cover of darkness. Colley's second major defeat, but unfortunately for the British, not his last.

Waterloo Archive Volume III: British Sources

Gareth Glover [Ed]
Just like the first two volumes another fascinating read. There are many many books which give one the strategy, and an over view of the action in the battle, some excellent in their way. But these volumes tell us, or more correctly the men themselves tell us, about real lives of real individuals who were involved in that momentous event. If you want to know who fought Quatre-Bras and Waterloo then these volumes tell you of some of the men. We can guess that most of the others, whose voices are not recorded, had similar varied lives. Also in the three British sourced volumes there are eight superb illustrations reproduced from William Mudford's history of Waterloo published in 1817.
If you want to know the men read these books.
Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2011