Yaƙin Witpoort

An yi **yakin Witpoort** a lokacin yakin Anglo-Boer na biyu. Manjo Frederick Henry Munn ya ba da umarnin tawagar Royal Irish Fusiliers a Witpoort wanda aka kai wa hari a ranar 16 ga watan Yuli 1900, umarninsa shine "riƙe matsayinsa ko ta yaya". Boers sun yi kira ga Manjo Munn da ya miƙa wuya, amma, cikin wulakanci ya ki, ya tsaya daga wayewar gari har zuwa karfe 2 na rana, lokacin da sojojin Kanada suka kai farmaki kuma Boers suka yi ritaya. Yaƙin ya zama sananne saboda mutuwar Harold Lothrop Borden.

## Yanayi
An yi yakin Boer na biyu daga 11 ga watan Oktoba 1899 har zuwa 31 ga watan Mayu 1902 tsakanin Masarautar Biritaniya da Turawan Holland masu magana da harshen Holland na jamhuriyar Boer guda biyu, Jamhuriyar Afirka ta Kudu (Jamhuriyar Transvaal) da Orange Free State. Ya ƙare da nasara na Birtaniyya tare da mamaye jamhuriyar biyu da Daular Burtaniya ta yi; Dukansu daga ƙarshe za a haɗa su cikin Tarayyar Afirka ta Kudu, mulkin daular Biritaniya, a cikin shekarar 1910.

A cikin yakin Witpoort, kwamandan Birtaniya Edward Hutton yana da kamfanoni huɗu na Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1st Mounted Infantry, wanda ya kasance na 1st da 2nd Canadians (wanda ya isa sansanin a ranar 15 ga watan Yuli), da kuma Australiya na Queensland Mounted Infantry. A ƙarƙashin umarnin Manjo Munn akwai kamfanoni uku na Royal Irish Fusiliers (ko huɗu, a cewar 'G' Troop) kuma an sanya sojoji 60 na New Zealand Mounted Rifles a kan tsaunuka uku da ke kan hanyar Witpoort Pass, Janar Ben Viljoen na Jamhuriyar Afirka ta Kudu ya tuhumi jami'an Burtaniya da sanannen mayaƙin Boer Roland Schikkerling.

## Yaƙi

Janar Ben Viljoen na Jamhuriyar Afirka ta Kudu ya ajiye sojojinsa domin kai hari a daren ranar 15 ga watan watan Yuli, sannan ya kai hari ta hanyoyi uku kan Manjo Munn da na Irish da gari ya waye. Viljoen ya ba da umarnin "hatsarin gabaɗaya na abubuwan da Birtaniyya ta yi". An buɗe yakin ne da karfe 06.45 tare da yin luguden wuta kan dakarun Manjo Munn. Shahararren mayaƙin Boer Roland Schikerling da abokansa sun je arewacin ƙoramar New Zealanders sannan aka caje su da wata babbar bindiga. New Zealanders sun miƙa wuya ɗaya daga cikin tuddai uku da suka mamaye, Boers sun mallaki tudu mafi girma wanda ke ba da umarnin tsakiyar tudu. Schikerling ya kama kyaftin da 'yan New Zealand ashirin kuma wasu sun ci gaba da kai tsaye a kan tudu kuma suka kama dawakai da dama. (Boer Willem Morkel du Toit ya mutu a tuhumar.)

'Yan ƙasar Canada sun kai harin mayar da martani. Kanar Edwin Alderson ya aika da tawaga biyu na mutanen Kanada don taimakawa 'yan Irish a kan kopje wanda New Zealanders suka bar' kuma, tare da wuta daga bindigogi, an sake samun matsayin. Lieutenants Borden da John Edgar Burch  na 'B' Squadron sun jagoranci kai hari.  Sun yi nasara, amma a kan asarar rayukansu. 'Yan bindigar da ba su wuce yadi 200 ba sun harbe su yayin da suke tsaye don jagorantar bindigogin gaba. Lord Roberts ya ba da rahoto ga Ofishin Yakin cewa Borden da Burch "an kashe su ne yayin da suke jagorantar mutanensu a wani hari da suka kai wa gefen abokan gaba a wani muhimmin lokaci na harin da ya kai kan matsayinmu."  

Da karfe 14.00, jami'in Birtaniya Edward Hutton ya motsa dukan sojojinsa zuwa wuraren da aka sake dawowa da su kuma, da faɗuwar rana, yakin Witpoort ya ƙare. Asarar sa bakwai ne suka mutu, tare da raunata 30. An kama jami’ai biyu da sojoji 22 a matsayin fursuna. Asarar Kanada tayi nauyi kuma sun haɗa da Lt Borden, ɗan Ministan Tsaro na Kanada. An binne shi a makabartar Braamfontein, ba da nisa da kabarin Willem Morkel du Toit.

Wani sanannen wanda aka kashe a Kanada shi ne Trooper Lorne Mulloy wanda ya makanta a idanun biyu kuma ya ba da lambar yabo mai ban sha'awa.

## Martaba
Akwai 'yan kaɗan daga fagen fama na Yaƙin Anglo-Boer waɗanda ke ba da irin waɗannan abubuwan da aka kiyaye su sosai kamar yadda Witpoort ya yi tare da 51 ƙanana biyu da huɗu na dutsen Breastworks  (sangars) waɗanda New Zealanders suka gina. Dogayen matsuguni na dutse ya sa mutum ya tsaya a can ya hango mahaukacin tuhumar da fitaccen mayakin Boer Roland Schikerling da takwarorinsa na Johannesburg suka yi. Can Willem Morkel ya faɗi. Haka kuma mutum na iya tsugunne a bayan dutsen dutsen mita talatin zuwa arba'in a ƙarƙashin sangars sannan kuma ya bi ƙasa da zarar wutar New Zealand ta shafe. Can Schikerling ya kai fursunonin sa.

A kudancin rafin Kanar Alderson ya jagoranci ƴan ƙasar Kanada a harin da suka kai wa wurin da aka kama. A yau, wannan yanki gonaki ne mai kyau kuma a arewa, matakin da Boers ya caje shi ya zama shukar wattle.

Wannan wurin yakin, tare da sangarori da ake iya gane su a fili, ya cancanci a ayyana shi a matsayin Gidan Tarihi a ƙarƙashin inuwar sabuwar Hukumar Tarihi ta Ƙasa.

## Duba kuma

* Bombard a yakin Boer na biyu
* Tarihin soja na Afirka ta Kudu
* Tarihin soja na Nova Scotia

## Bayanan kula

* Yaƙin Witpoort ta DC Panagos, Ƙungiyar Tarihin Soja ta Johannesberg 
* Harris, H, 'The Royal Irish Fusiliers' a cikin Sir Brian Horrocks (ed), Shahararrun Regiments, (Cooper, London, 1972).
* Miller, Carman, Zanen taswirar ja, (McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 1994).

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

* Hoton Abin tunawa ga Sojojin Burtaniya da suka mutu a yakin Witpoort
* Hoton John Burch