Talk:Battle of Sandfontein

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All the details of the battle are wrong here. For one, the mountain is not called Kopje. It is a kopje - a kind of hill, common to the region, so called because it looks like someone took a giant teacup (kopje in Dutch) full of boulders and turned it upside down. I know because I drove for three days through the desert to get there and climbed the koppie (the modern Afrikaans spelling). My main sources are a hand typed contemporary Army report on the battle (however do I cite that?), family lore, and Gerard L'Anges book Urgent Imperial Service.

There is no way I can edit this article from my virtual iPad keyboard. Just typing this is hard enough CharlesKiddell (talk) 22:04, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

I agree with user CharlesKiddell. I am busy writing the Afrikaans version. Regards! Oesjaar (talk) 15:57, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

The Colonel, R.C. Grant, mentioned in the text, later went on to be second-in-command of the South African army. His wife, though also Scots ancestry, was part Afrikaner. I wonder if General Ronald Charles Grant is deserving of his own Wikipedia entry? I happen to have copies of his father's journals (originals in the archives at Grahamstown) and Chinese Gordon, of all people, tried to prevent R.C. Grant from taking a role as supernumerary lieutenant on his first campaign. He fought in the Boer War as well. CharlesKiddell (talk) 16:47, 16 November 2018 (UTC)