Siege of Rustenburg (Q15693966)

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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The siege of Rustenburg was a siege that took place between 1880 and 1881 during the First Boer War. Boer forces of the South African Republic carried out the siege on Rustenburg, a British-controlled city inside of the Transvaal Colony, and captured it after three months.

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