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All the details of the battle are wrong here. For one, the mountain in 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)[reply]