120 years ago today: Spion Kop

Today marks the 120th anniversary of one of the bloodiest actions of the war – the Battle of Spion Kop. Churchill, who was there, declared the scene on top of the hill to have been ‘an acre of massacre’ and it would be hard to think of a more apt description of the slaughter that day.

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