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The South African Light Horse regiment of the British Army (not to be confused with the Imperial Light Horse (ILH) later known as the Light Horse Regiment (LHR) of the South African Army) were raised in Cape Colony in 1899 and disbanded in 1907.〔Engelbrecht, see footnote 1〕 The commanding officer tasked with raising the regiment was Major (locally a Lieutenant Colonel) the Honourable Julian Byng〔 (10th Hussars) who would go on to rise to the rank of Field Marshal). The future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill served as a Lieutenant in the SALH.〔Churchill, ch.XV〕 ==Relief of Ladysmith== (詳細はSecond Boer War, and by December of that year 8 squadrons had been raised from Uitlanders.〔 They were largely financed by Wernher-Beit & co. and together with the Imperial Light Horse they effectively formed a Uitlander army.〔Pakenham 1979, p.108〕 A small portion were used to protect the railway line to De Aar but they mostly served as a part of the Mounted Brigade of the Natal Field Force under Lieutenant-General Douglas Cochrane the 12th Earl of Dundonald, taking part in the relief of the besieged town of Ladysmith. The Boers had encircled Ladysmith trapping a force of 13,000 British troops under the command of Lieutenant General Sir George White inside〔Meredith, ch. 39〕 (along with separate sieges in Mafeking and Kimberley). The relief effort was dispatched from Cape Town under the command of General Sir Redvers Buller and by early December 1899 this 20,000 strong relieving army was arriving just south of the river Tugela. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South African Light Horse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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