Mount Moorosi

Mount Moorosi
Morosi's Mountain
Mount Moorosi

Mount Moorosi

Highest point
Coordinates 30°16′43″S 27°52′20″E / 30.27861°S 27.87222°E / -30.27861; 27.87222Coordinates: 30°16′43″S 27°52′20″E / 30.27861°S 27.87222°E / -30.27861; 27.87222
Geography
Location Quthing District, Lesotho
Parent range Drakensberg

Mount Moorosi (or Morosi's Mountain) is a mountain in the Drakensberg mountain range on the banks of the Orange River in southern Basutoland (modern Lesotho). It acquired the name Morosi's Mountain after Morosi, the Chief of a local tribe, who, after committing acts deemed to hostile to the Cape Colonial administration, fortified himself on the mountain. A Royal Engineer who was posted to the mountain after the siege began stated that: "Morosi's Mountain is an isolated kopje, rising steeply on the south bank of the Orange River, about 1,500 feet, and connected with the range on the south by a low narrow nek."[1]

For actions during the siege three Victoria Crosses were awarded to British troops: Peter Brown, Edmund Hartley and Robert Scott.[2]

References

  1. Hulme, J. J. "Morosi's Mountain 1879; A Royal Engineer's Report". Journal Vol8 No 3. South African Military History Society.
  2. Tylden, Geoffrey (1936). "The capture of Morosi's Mountain, 1879". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 15 (208–15).


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