The Battle of Belmont was an engagement of the Second Boer War on 23 November 1899, where the British under Lord Methuen assaulted a Boer position on Belmont kopje. (It maybe of interest that only 38 years previous during the American Civil War as Battle of Belmont also took place in the month of November,in Mississippi County, Missouri where Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was in charge).