The siege of Mafeking was a 217-day siege battle for the town of Mafeking (now called Mahikeng) in South Africa during the Second Boer War from October 1899 to May 1900.

Siege of Mafeking, Boer siege of a British military outpost in the South African War at the town of Mafeking (also spelled Mafikeng and Mahikeng) in northwestern South Africa in 1899–1900. The garrison, under the command of Col. Robert S. Baden …

馬弗京戰役（英語： Siege of Mafeking ）為第二次波耳戰爭中，英國最著名的行動。 本戰役從1899年10月到1900年5月，共經歷217天的時間，開戰地點在南非的馬弗京，使得童軍運動創始人羅伯特·貝登堡成為國家英雄。 馬弗京救援（ Relief of Mafeking ）成為英國在此一系列戰中獲得勝利，和波耳人垮台的關鍵 ...

Date of the Siege of Mafeking: 14 th October 1899 to 16 th May 1900. Place: Mafeking lies on the railway north to Rhodesia, in the Northern tip of Cape Colony in South Africa, near to the Bechuanaland border. Combatants at the Siege of Mafeking: British against the Boers.

2017年5月17日 · Over 217 days, from 13 October 1899 to 17 May 1900, little more than 1,000 totally outgunned and outnumbered European and African defenders, ultimately only surviving on starvation rations and led by Col Baden-Powell, were initially besieged by 8,000 and, from mid-November 1899, a reduced number of around 2,000 Boer fighters, led respectively by...

2017年4月25日 · The Siege of Mafeking was an engagement of the Second Boer War fought around the town of Mafeking, close to the border between then British South Africa and the then Boer Republic of Transvaal. The siege started on October 13, 1899, and lasted until May 17, 1900, when the town was relieved by British reinforcements.

2014年12月15日 · On October 12th, the day after the declaration of war, an armoured train conveying two 7-pounders for the Mafeking defences was derailed and captured by a Boer raiding party at Kraaipan, a place forty miles south of their destination.

The Siege of Mafeking was the most famous British action in the Second Boer War. It took place at the town of Mahikeng (called Mafeking by the British) in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert …

2024年7月15日 · The Siege of Mafeking, a significant event during the Second Boer War, occurred from October 1899 to May 1900 in South Africa. The conflict stemmed from tensions between the British Empire and the Boer Republics, namely the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, over control of the region’s resources.

The siege of Mafeking lasted seven months from October 1899, when the little town was surrounded by a Boer force of some 5,000 men under a redoubtable leader, Piet Cronje. The British garrison commanded by Colonel Robert Baden-Powell (B-P for short) numbered about 2,000 officers and men.