Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Lang's Nek (First Boer War).

Fought January 28, 1881, when a British column, 1,100 strong, under General Colley, attacked the Boers in a strong position at Lang's Nek. The British were repulsed with a loss of 198 killed and wounded. The Boers lost 14 killed and 27 wounded.