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The Belmont Boere Gedenkteken is a war memorial located in Hopetown, Northern Cape Province. It commemorates the Boer forces who died in the Battle of Belmont, fought on 23 November 1899 during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). The battle was part of Lord Methuen's advance to relieve the besieged town of Kimberley. The Boer forces, under the command of General Jacobus Prinsloo, were defeated by British troops, with casualties on both sides. The memorial specifically honors the Boer combatants who fell in this engagement.

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