commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Redvers Buller

British general (1839–1908)

Redvers Buller is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1899 and 1900: 6 battles, all in present-day South Africa. Taken in date order, the sites lie 394 km apart end to end, 98 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Second Boer War (5), Anglo-Zulu War (1).

6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
28 October 1899	Relief of Ladysmith	KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa		British victory
23 January 1900	Battle of Spion Kop	South Africa	34 km W	Boer victory
5 February 1900	Battle of Vaal Krantz	South Africa	12 km E	Boer victory
14 February 1900	Battle of the Tugela Heights	Colenso, South Africa	20 km E	British victory
27 August 1900	Battle of Bergendal	eMakhazeni, South Africa	329 km N	British victory
date unknown	Zungeni Mountain skirmish	South Africa		Inconclusive

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Whates, Harry Richard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.