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who was posted to the mountain after the siege began stated that: "Moorosi'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."
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Tylden, Geoffrey (1936). "The capture of Morosi's Mountain, 1879".
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Mount Moorosi (Baphuthi Chief Moorosi's Mountain Fortress)
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Thaba Moorosi
Mount Moorosi is located in Lesotho
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30°16′43″S 27°52′20″E / 30.27861°S 27.87222°E / -30.27861; 27.87222
Quthing District
Lesotho
Parent range
Drakensberg
Drakensberg
Orange River
Basutoland
Lesotho
Moorosi
Royal Engineer
Victoria Crosses
Peter Brown
Edmund Hartley
Robert Scott
"Morosi's Mountain 1879; A Royal Engineer's Report"
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