"Bloody Sunday of February 18, 1900, was a day of high Imperial casualties in the Second Boer War.It occurred on the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg. A combined British-Canadian force of 6,000 finally trapped a group of approximately 5,000 Boer soldiers and some civilians, under Piet Cronj\u00E9, in a bend of the Modder River near Kimberley, having advanced from south of the Modder River on the 11th."@en . "5,000" . . . . "First assault; Boer victory" . . "280 dead" . "Second assault; Imperial victory" . "1,100 total, including;" . "6,000" . "Bloody Sunday"@en . "1900-02-18Z"^^ .