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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Reddersberg (Second Boer War).

Fought April 3, 1900, when 5 companies of British infantry were surrounded by a force of Boers, with 5 guns, and after holding out for twenty-four hours, were compelled by want of water to surrender, having lost 4 officers and 43 men killed and wounded. The prisoners numbered 405.