Yaƙin Kogin Blood Poort

A yakin kogin jini ko kuma Scheeper's Nek  a ranar 17 ga watan Satumba Shekara ta 1901 wani kwamandan Boer ƙarƙashin jagorancin Louis Botha ya murkushe sojojin Burtaniya da Manjo Hubert Gough ya ba da umarni a lokacin yakin Boer na biyu.Badsey, p. 128

 Tarihi 
A cikin watan Agustan 1901, shugabannin Boer sun yanke shawarar tura sojojin kudu zuwa Natal da Cape Colony suna fatan haifar da tashin hankali a cikin Cape Colony na Holland-mafi rinjaye ko akalla don samun ma'aikata ga sojojinsu.Pakenham, p. 564  Saboda haka, wani kwamandan da ke ƙarƙashin Botha ya koma kudu maso gabas zuwa Natal yayin da wani kwamandan da ke ƙarƙashin Jan Smuts ya kai hari kudu zuwa yankin Cape Colony.

Jami'an leken asirin Birtaniyya sun gano shirin, amma Botha ya kaucewa ginshikan shiga Burtaniya. Ruwan sanyin bazara ya sanya tattakin da wahala musamman ga dawakan Boers.Pakenham, p. 563 A ranar 14 ga watan Satumba, Botha ya bar sansaninsa na mutum 1,000 a kusa da Utrecht don ba da damar dawakan su murmure.Pakenham, p. 562 A halin yanzu, Gough's 24th Mounted Infantry (MI) yayi  ƙaura ta jirgin ƙasa daga Kroonstad a cikin Orange Free State zuwa Dundee a Natal. Gough ya sami bayanan sirri cewa Botha da Boers 700 suna nan kusa.Pakenham, p. 562

 Yaƙi 
Gough ya jagoranci MI nasa daga Dundee zuwa De Jaeger's Drift, wani shingen shinge akan Kogin Buffalo. Da yake watsi da rahoton na leken asirin kamar yadda aka yi ƙarin gishiri, ya jagoranci kamfanoni uku don leken asiri a faɗin kogin. Ta gilashin filinsa, ya hango Boers 300 da suka sauka a wata gona kusa da Kogin Jinin Poort.Pakenham, p. 564  Ya bar abokin aikinsa Laftanar-Kanar HK Stewart tare da 450 MI a baya, Gough ya matsa gaba zuwa wani fili da yammacin rana, yana shirin bai wa Boers mamaki a gonar. Gough bai sani ba, Botha yana tafiya kusa da gefen damansa tare da mutane 700.Pakenham, p. 563

Hare-haren Botha ya mamaye karfin Gough gaba ɗaya. Laftanar Llewellyn Price-Davies na King's Royal Rifle Corps ya lashe Victoria Cross don bajintar kare bindigogin filin. An kama Gough, ya tsere, an sake kama shi kuma a ƙarshe ya tsere da ƙafa a cikin duhu.Pakenham, p. 563 A ɓangaren Birtaniyya, an kashe jami’ai huɗu da wasu mukamai 19 ko kuma aka raunata su, jami’ai 2 da mutane 19 sun samu raunuka, sannan an kama jami’ai 6 da mutane 235. A cewar manufar Boer, an cire waɗanda aka kama daga makamansu da duk wani kayan aiki mai amfani, da yawancin tufafinsu, kuma an ba su damar tafiya zuwa ofishin Burtaniya mafi kusa. Boers ɗin dai sun kwace bindigogi biyu, bindigu 180 da kuma ƙananan harsasai masu yawa. Dawakan 200 da aka kama sun zama marasa kyau kuma ba su da amfani ga maharan. Asarar boer tayi haske.

 Bayan haka 
Botha ya kasa cin gajiyar nasarar da ya samu saboda ya tarar da duk mashigar kogin Buffalo da turawan Ingila suka toshe. Boers sun koma kudu maso gabas, suna fatan samun wurin da za su haye zuwa Natal. A kan iyakar Zululand, Botha ya kai hari ga wani sansanin Birtaniya mai suna Fort Itala, yana zaton cewa ba a kare shi ba. Maimakon haka, Boers sun sami hanci na jini lokacin da aka kashe 56 daga cikin mazajensu ko aka raunata. Lokacin da Botha ya gane cewa sojojin Birtaniya suna gabatowa da karfi sosai, sai ya koma cikin Transvaal, harin da ya yi ya ci nasara.Pakenham, p. 564

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