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See also:MAJUBA (properly AMAJUBA, Zulu for "the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill of doves") , a See also:mountain in See also:northern See also:Natal, See also:part of the See also:Drakensberg range,rising about 7000 ft. above the See also:sea and over 2000 ft. above the level of the surrounding See also:country. It overlooks the pass through the Drakensberg known as See also:Laing's Nek, is 8 m. S. of the See also:Transvaal border and 18 m. N. of the See also:town of See also:Newcastle. The railway from See also:Durban to See also:Johannesburg skirts the See also:base of the mountain. During the See also:Boer See also:War of 188o-81 Majuba was occupied on the See also:night of the 26th of See also:February 1881 by some 600 See also:British troops under See also:Sir See also:George See also:Pomeroy See also:Colley. On the following morriing the hill was stormed by the Boers under Piet See also:Joubert and the British routed, Colley being among the slain.
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