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Events on Sunday 27 February 1881 1
1881Battle of Majuba HillDecisive Boer victory ending the First Boer WarBoer forces defeated a British garrison occupying Majuba Hill in the Transvaal, inflicting heavy casualties including the death of British commander George Pomeroy Colley. The defeat led Britain to seek peace rather than continue the war. It remains a defining moment in Afrikaner national memory.