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Kraaipan is a small village in the North West Province of South Africa, located near Vryburg. The site is historically significant as the location of the first shots of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), not 1898. On 11 October 1899, Boer forces under General Koos de la Rey attacked and captured a British armoured train at Kraaipan station. This engagement marked the opening of hostilities in the war, with the train carrying British soldiers and supplies being derailed and seized after a brief skirmish. The battle is commemorated by a monument near the site.

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