Mount Moorosi

Mount Moorosi (Baphuthi Chief Moorosi's Mountain Fortress)

Mount Moorosi
Moorosi's Mountain
Mount Moorosi Mount Moorosi
Highest point
Coordinates	30°16′43″S 27°52′20″E
Geography
Location	Quthing District, Lesotho
Parent range	Drakensberg

Mount Moorosi (or Moorosi's Mountain) is a mountain in the Drakensberg mountain range on the banks of the Orange River in southern Lesotho. It acquired the name Moorosi's Mountain after Moorosi, the Chief of a local tribe, who, after committing acts deemed to hostile to the Cape Colonial administration, fortified himself on the mountain. A Royal Engineer 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."[1]

For actions during the siege three Victoria Crosses were awarded to British troops: Peter Brown, Edmund Hartley and Robert Scott.[2]

References

1. Hulme, J. J. "Morosi's Mountain 1879; A Royal Engineer's Report". Journal Vol8 No 3. South African Military History Society.
2. Tylden, Geoffrey (1936). "The capture of Morosi's Mountain, 1879". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 15 (208–15).