Battle of Schuinshoogte Also known as Ingogo , was a battle fought on February 8th 1881 during the First Boer War. General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley 's communications with Newcastle were under constant harassment by mounted Boer patrols under Commander J D Weilbach after the Battle of Laing's Nek (another British defeat) and as a result the General made it his plan to clear a clean unmolested path along the Newcastle-Mount Prospect road in order to better protect the British supply line, and receive fresh reinforcements he needed to bolster his ranks. At roughly Nine that morning he left the Mount Prospect camp with a force comprised mostly of Infantrymen. A company of the 60th Rifles (King's Royal Rifles) and two pieces of artillery were left at a ridge overlooking the Ingogo River while a handful of mounted men and infantry covered the drift. As Colley advanced up the slope of the Ingogo he received word from his scouting party that a mainly mounted Boer force under Gen. N J Smith and Comdt. J D Weilbach was approaching nearby. The British formed circular/squared defensive positions on the crest of the ridge with 240 infantry, 38 Calvary and 2 pieces of artillery while the roughly 300 Boers attempted to surround them and cut them off from escape. From noon until about Five that evening a series of close range engagements was fought and the British suffered heavily from the accurate and concentrated Boer fire, and from the fact that their red uniforms made them stick out from their surroundings, while the boers wore khaki coloured clothing thus being able to blend into the enviroment and making them more difficult to be targeted by the British, add to the fact that they knew the terrain they were fighting on,. Simply put, the Boers were commanded by a competent and much more intelligent commander then the British. Afterward heavy rain began to fall and the battle came to an abrupt end. Colley left the dead and wounded on the battlefield and retreated back to Mount Prospect while the Boers moved off to the south. It has been speculated had Colley received his reinforcements before the onslaught of the rain, he would have probably been able to defeat the Boers for the first time and give the British better bargaining power during the peace negotiations. When the British returned with a burial party on the next day, they found the Boers had returned to take care of their own dead and wounded. No engagement occurd. The 8 Boer dead were burried on the farm "Geelhoutboom" some 5 km west of the battle site. The British lost 7 officers and 69 men killed and another 68 were wounded. The men were buried on the battlefield while the officers’ bodies were exhumed 4 days later and taken to Fort Amiel for reburial. Colley was plagued by defeat throughout the war, and although he would receive his reinforcements, his men were so demoralized by the string of defeats and he would be killed in action at the Battle of Amajuba .