Yaƙin Poplar Grove

Yakin Poplar Grove (Afrikaans: Slag van Modderrivierpoort) ya faru ne a ranar 7 ga watan Maris 1900 a lokacin yakin Boer na biyu a Afirka ta Kudu. Hakan ya biyo bayan Taimakon Kimberley yayin da Sojojin Birtaniyya suka matsa don ɗaukar babban birnin Boer na Bloemfontein. Boers sun ji rauni bayan miƙa wuya na Piet Cronjé a yakin Paardeberg. Sojojin dawakin Janar Sir John French's sun kai wa sojojin Boer hari daga baya a yayin da suke hawa dakaru da bindigogin dawakai daga ɓangaren dama. Boers sun yi watsi da matsayinsu a firgice a gaban sojojin dawakai. Babban kwamandan sojojin Free State Free, Christiaan de Wet, a cikin littafinsa ya kira babi a kan batun "Jirgin daji daga Poplar Grove". Wannan yakin ya biyo bayan yakin Driefontein (Afrikaans: Slag van Driefontein, wanda ake kira Battle of Abrahamskraal (Slag van Abrahamskraal)) a ranar 10 ga watan Maris, 1900.Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War, George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1979. Abacus, 1992. ISBN 0 349 10466 2. Pages 373-375, and 381.

 Tarihi 
Taimakon Kimberley ya faru ne a ranar 15 ga watan Fabrairun 1900. Bayan yakin Paardeberg akan kogin Modder, kwamandan Boer, Janar Cronje, ya miƙa wuya a ranar 27 ga watan Fabrairu.De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf, Three Year War, Archibald Constable & Co, Ltd, 1902. An naɗa Christiaan de Wet a matsayin babban kwamanda na Orange Free State. Ya tattara kwamandojinsa a Poplar Grove, kimanin mil goma daga saman Paardeberg kuma a kan hanyar zuwa Bloemfontein, babban birnin Jihar Orange Free.  De Wet cikin gaggawa ya tara barasa a cikin sangarori waɗanda suka ratsa kogin Modder tare da layin tsaunuka, faɗin mil goma.Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War, George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1979. Abacus, 1992. ISBN 0 349 10466 2. Pages 373-375, and 381.  A ranar 7 ga watan Maris shugaban ƙasar Kruger na Jamhuriyar Zuid-Afrikaansche ya isa Poplar Grove don ya ziyarci sauran burgers ɗinsa. Ba da jimawa ya isa ba sai aka ba da rahoton cewa Lord Roberts ya fara ci gaba a kan Bloemfontein. An dawo da Kruger a cikin keken sa aka aika a hanya.  

 Yaƙi 
Shirin Faransa shine ta yi gagarumin yunkuri a gefen hagu na Boers dubu shida, ba tare da yin hulɗa ba, sannan ta kai musu hari daga baya. Sojoji da bindigogi za su kai musu hari daga dama. Faransa, ƙungiyar sojan doki, wasu rukunin sojan ƙasa da kuma bindigogi 42 da ke kan doki, sun aiwatar da umarnin su. Amma Boers "ba su nuna hali kamar pheasants masu kyau ba".Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ya rubuta game da shi: "Tsarin aikin ya dogara ne, duk da haka, akan wani zato wanda ya zama kuskure. Ya kasance cewa bayan da ya shirya irin wannan matsayi abokin gaba zai dakatar da akalla ɗan lokaci don kare shi.Doyle, AC The Great Boer War, p.78  "

 Bayan haka 
Wani firgici ya kama Boers. Da suka ga mahayan daga nesa, sai suka gudu. De Wet da jami'ansa sun yi ƙoƙarin hana su amma sunyi banza da su. Daga ƙarshe sun tsaya a Ibrahim's Kraal, mai nisan mil 18 daga Poplar Grove.  A can suka bijirewa ci gaba da ƙarfin hali washegari, amma a wannan dare suka gudu zuwa Bloemfontein.  An sake sanya kwamandojin a wurare na tsaro, a shirye su hana Roberts ɗaukar babban birnin ƙasar. A wannan dare De Wet ya ziyarci duk kwamandojin. "Kyakkyawan ruhu ya rinjaye su", De Wet zai rubuta daga baya. Lokacin da ya kai matsayin kudanci, wani lamari ne na daban. Ɗaya daga cikin kwamandojin ya yi watsi da matsayinsa kawai.  

Lokacin da aka fara faɗa washegari, Boers sun sake yin watsi da matsayinsu suka gudu zuwa arewa.Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War, George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1979. Abacus, 1992. ISBN 0 349 10466 2. Pages 373-375, and 381.  

 Nassoshi 

 Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1979.
 De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf, Yaƙin Shekara Uku, Archibald Constable da Co Ltd, 1902.
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Great Boer War, Kindle edition. 

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