The Battle of Majuba Hill | Boers Vs British | Total War Cinematic Battle

[@BarryRudge]

In 1970 I was a young police officer having served in the job almost 5 yrs when I was asked to attend a local council flat as there was concern about an elderly gentleman who lived in the flats. The front door was open and let myself in. It was a man in his late 90's who usually had a home help visiting on a daily basis. I made sure he was OK and made him a cup of tea. he got talking to me about his army service in the Boer war and how they were overrun by the Boers and he played dead beneath a fallen comrade until the Boers left. A fascinating man to listen to. When you take the time to listen to an elderly person it's amazing the stories you can come across.

[@Brans-zy8dx]

Amazing you got to speak to someone who was actually alive during the Victorian era. I would have loved to have heard his tales. My great grandfather served in this war for the British

[@DEP717]

That is beautiful, because through you it goes on forward. Thank you.

[@samueladorno478]

What an honor would be to listen.

[@soupman3285]

How old was he when he participated in the Boer War?

[@BarryRudge]

@@soupman3285 It is over 50 yrs ago since I spoke to that elderly gent and remember very little of our conversation. I believe he was no far from his 100th birthday

[@sonnyjim5268]

I find these videos on South Africa very interesting. It would be good see them released in chronological order so the uneducated, like myself, could learn how this theatre transpired over time. Thank you for your work, very good.

[@cinematicbattles559]

Yes I was thinking about doing this soon, I appreciate the kind words ☺️

[@Rojc_TF]

@@cinematicbattles559hey bro! I’m so glad and relieved to see the British again I thought the whole British Africa thing was going to vanish Remember when we talked about it last vid? Anyways I haven’t watched the vid yet I wonder what awesome stuff could happen 😊

[@alvinkraycraft763]

The boers were using magazine fed Mauser rifles. That were superior to the British Martin Henry rifles. Plus the Boers were life long Riflemen not someone that was drafted off the streets and handed a rifle.

[@lowiq3409]

No Mausers in this conflict, in the second Anglo Boer war yes

[@MrPh30]

They used Winchester,magazine rifles, 73, and 76s Westley Richards Improved MH rifles, Vetterli,,MH rifles and other ones .

[@MrPh30]

Snider also

[@mikemcghin5394]

​@@MrPh30the Westley Richard was a caping version of the martini Henry not an improved model

[@DEP717]

"It's over, Anakin! I have the... oh."

[@angelojeda2146]

Nice video!!! Very interesting piece of information!!

[@cinematicbattles559]

Thank you!

[@prdocumentaries7553]

I love this video. It is the first time seeing this battle be re-enacted in Total War. Please make more videos on the First Boer War, especially battles like Laing's Nek and Bronkhorstspruit. Thanks!!!

[@cinematicbattles559]

Thanks! Yes, I am definitely going to cover all the Boer wars eventually!

[@prdocumentaries7553]

@@cinematicbattles559 Thank you! Glad to hear it

[@mattp.3949]

Unfortunately, the sharp lessons the British had learned during the First Boer War (1880-1881).... which included Boer marksmanship, tactical flexibility and good use of ground... had largely been forgotten when the Second Boer War broke out 18 years later in 1899.

[@CertifiedBC]

At least they changed the uniforms

[@jonny-b4954]

I do like the visuals. But think some map slides would be nice. To provide some context of where we're even talking about.

[@zach7193]

Well, this was off the heels of the recent British victory over the Zulus two years earlier. The Boers picked off the British like grass from a scythe. Redcoated uniforms were a target for the Boer riflemen who knew how to shoot. Was like Lexington and Concord in the American Revolution.

[@tonyblakemore2355]

So, the arrogance and amateurishness of British Army Commanders was well and truly alive and kicking in 1880 and not just apparent in WW1 where 'Lions were lead by Donkeys'. This was in an age where the highest ranking Commander would have his manservant set up a table with wine and light food to enjoy while watching his men in action in a battle nearby. Such was the sheer stupidity of the elitist minds at that time. They learnt nothing from the Boer tactics here. Having served I am well aware what a weapon set at 600 yards battlesights against an enemy 100 yards away would be like. Absolute carnage.

[@ArmyJames]

All right then…….. Nobody told you to stop working.

[@the5thmusketeer215]

I simply don’t understand how the Boers were able to spot the British Troops atop Majuba Hill… 👀‼️ considering how perfectly camouflaged they were against the local terrain, in their bright Scarlet Tunics… 🤔

[@tree3910]

They were the one who taught the British real warfare

[@rodgerhargoon3402]

They were thought a bloody lesson by the boers and the zulus in south Africa that churchill never ever forgot ...he himself hiding in a train to Mozambique .....

[@moffichu9150]

at 11 I learned how to shoot my first rifle, a year after that at 12 I shot a double barrel. Around 12 is when I drove my first dirt bike too which was my stepbrothers CRF450f (no, I didn't fit at all. I had to ride up to walls or have other people help me off) - people don't understand the boere

[@janiliebenberg4407]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ScotWallace]

great video

[@cinematicbattles559]

Thanks!

[@hiramabiff2017]

What a time in history to be British and have balls of steel. The world was your oyster. Men like Sir Cecil Rhodes who had the fortitude and ambition to carve countries and nations out of nothing are a breed sorely missed. We have allowed weak men & women into positions of power now. What a bloody mistake that was.

[@lordlucan3706]

True fact....Nationalism is an infantile disease.

[@e3IZrZ]

I couldn't stop laughing how all the soldiers were all the same guy lmao.

[@kaydenletts8017]

Do a first sino japanese war series next pls

[@HernanieLegaste]

What nationality is that Boer

[@ophirbactrius8285]

Maybe a settlers and mercenaries comes from The Netherlands and Prussia.

[@pierrelombaard9961]

Biggest BS i've ever saw reenacted. The Boors never fought in phalanx or in regiments. The went up that hill in staggered and guerilla order. I should know as my great grandfather was genl. Nicholas Smit that actually commanded the storming of that hill🤣

[@louisduplessis2075]

Not sure if the Brits took horses up Majuba...maybe someone can help out here....Majuba...Amajuba is Zulu for Hill of Doves it looks like an old volcano ..dominating the area

[@peterwallace9764]

English trained infantry weren’t told to change sight settings. Surely each infantry man would have the knowledge & experience to realise their sight settings were lobbing their shots over the top of their targets. Experience over tight discipline.

[@charlestran6265]

Did John Lithgow narrate this?

[@mateomarli8263]

What mods do you use?

[@cinematicbattles559]

Victoria at war for napoleon total war

[@mikey29211]

Is this the Orient mod?

[@TotalWarHistory.]

Puts British in title: instant 100k views

[@CertifiedBC]

Do the Spanish american war

[@leomarsubala115]

Ahhh yes battle between Coralie&Koleda🇳🇱🇿🇦 ancestors and Torche🇬🇧 ancestors.

[@badfoody]

Man this must have been hard to edit i know this is Fall of the Samurai so non Brit/French/American units speak Japanese hahaha

[@cinematicbattles559]

They do take a while to make! This is Napoleon Total War with the Khartum and Zulu mod installed

[@juanindojorgijanad782]

The Boers were victorious and the British forces were disastrously defeated at the Battle of Majuba Hill.

[@manuelacosta9463]

Colley's indecision and indescisiveness cost him both victory and his life as well as that of many of the troops under his command. The Pretoria convention was also the very first treaty that was unfavorable towards the British since the American Revolution.

[@johnbobson1557]

Except the American Revolution, was a civil war of British colonists vs the British Crown... The first 9 US Presidents were all born Englishmen. Boers were Dutch.

[@HansJuergBangerter]

Kitchener only defeated the Boer Freedom fighter starving 50K of their women and children to death in British Concnetration camps under British doctor Menegele's supervision...British empire was the first Nazi empire and Hitler later admired how elegant the British let Turks and Kurds do a genocide on Armenians, Greeks and Chaldeans in Middle East and Turkey as the British had less toubles with the Muslims being used to slavery then m ore intelligent Christians same as with the Boers. Hitler later copying Britain used Anti Semitic Ukrainians and Poles to do the dirty job massacring Jewish women and children as this was to hart on morale for real German Wehrmacht soldiers ..same as today USA-UK used Ukrainian AZOV Nazis to do a Genocide on the Russophone Donbass Civilians...never mind that USA used ISIS to massacre Yesidis and Chaldeans on closet Muslim Obama's orders.

[@cinematicbattles559]

Thanks for watching again bro

[@HansJuergBangerter]

@@cinematicbattles559 600K British Troops couldn't defeat 15K Boer Freedom fighters so 50K Boer Children and Women were starved to death in BRITISH CONCNETRATION CAMPS INVENTED BY LORD KITCHENER also 50K Black Farmer Families were starved mostly Males survived becoming the SLAVE LABOUR in British Mines on their lands, yes the British did a GENOCIDE ON BOERS AND BLACKS because under the Farmland the British found Gold and Diamonds.The Inventor of the British Concnetration camps and MURDERER OF 100K Boer and Black women and children was dclared a war hero in Britain. Churchill found his idol to later starve 3 Million Hindus to death in India. British never wan a land-war having an equal opposing force and without US air support or Prussian Generals and troops such as in Waterloo.

[@williecavanagh9240]

what i like he siad hat the boers republicks are called the south african republick or transfaal but it was really called the zuid afrkaanshe repibliek or in modern afrikaans the Suid afrikaanse repibliek

[@geekuyl6942]

It was never enough for the British, was it?

[@lowiq3409]

Just one correction: us Boers actually have more German ancestry than Dutch and then some French, Scandinavian, Irish, Scot

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Red uniforms of brits wouldnt have helped them.

[@ArmyJames]

That was somewhat the point. The red uniform was meant to send a message (defiance and fearlessness)

[@FFC_editz1234]

YES BRITISH EMPIRE