The Transvaal War London
The railway is open from Capetown to Bloemfontein The country is clear of she enemy as far as the Modder River…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
863 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 44
The Boer War. Free Staters Surrendering. Fighting at Mafeking. Kruger Defiant. 40,000 Boers Will Conquer or Die. Reprisals Threatened. London
DESPERATE lighting is reported from Mafeking, the Boers being driven back to their main lines. Colonel Baden-Powell reported hopefully on the 13th instant, on which date Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boer War Comment. Sydney
I have anticipated fairly well the strategy of Roberts and Buller up to the next important points of battle impact, and daring your show week will give military description a spell, unless something…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. 40,000 Boers in the Field. New Zealand's Offer. London
Desperate fighting has taken place at Mafeking, and the Boers were driven back to their main liner. Colonel Baden-Powell reported hopefully on the 13th instant, on which date Colonel Plumer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clarence Examiner. Saturday, March 24Th, 1900. the New Phase of the War. the Might of the Empire
With LORD ROBERTS and his gallant men in possession of Bloemfontein, to the great joy of its inhabitants, and with GENERAL PRETYMAN as Governor, in place of the fugitive ex-PRESIDENT…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Course of the War. the Capture of Bloemfontein. Macdonald's Pipes and French's Daring. an Historic Scene. the Advance Upon Vaal, River
The despatches of Lord Roberts are always satisfactory and good reading. They breathe the spirit of Blenheim and Waterloo, of Lucknow and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War as it is To-day
THE pictures of our battles which are coming back to us in the London weeklies are not at all like the real things. Art cannot keep pace with the quick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Latest From Mafeking. a Battle Imminent. General Methuen Advancing
THE leading English papers stigmatise President Steyn's reply to Lord Roberts' protests as "an appalling piece of effrontery."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Notes
THE Governor of New Zealand states that colony could Bond 30,000 men to fight for Britain If necessary, and still retain 60.000 for defence purposes. The number of Irishmen in the army…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Soldier of the Bush. a Tale of the Boer War. (Written for the Melbourne " Leader.") an Anticipation
Jim Caston was on a five months overlanding trip with cattle from Northern Queensland to Melbourne, when he heard, at a township in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. Death of Major- General Woodgate. London
Pretoria is preparing for a 2-years[?] siege. The report of the relief of Mafeking has been brought to the War Office by one of Plumer's scouts, but it has not yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →England and Her Reverses. the Future of the War. (London Daily Telegraph, Jan. 17th.)
An army is a living machine, which may be wrecked by incompetence or worked with resistless effect; the final question is one of manipulation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Soldier Up-to-date
Some interesting particulars are given concerning the young soldier's position and prospects with the colours, in Chamber's Journal for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War. Mafeking Belief Columns. Attack on Plummer's Column. Reported Relief of Mafeking. Conflicting Statements. Engagement at Fourteen Streams. London
Colonel Plummer is hampered in his advance upon Mafeking by three train loads of supplies. Commandant Synman, with a large force, attacked Colonel Plummee near Lobatsi on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Notes
SINCE the beginning of the war N.S.W. losses have been six killed in action, ten died from disease, 16 wounded, and 17 are reported missing. It transpires that the late G.W. Stevens, war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Office Story
IN his monthly diary in the "Nineteenth Century," Sir Wemyss Reid tells an amusing story illustrative of the methods of the War Department. He recalls the fact that some years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transvaal War. London
The London TIMES estimates 2000 Boers were killed in the present campaign. Their estimated casualties to date is 15,000, and probably henceforth they will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. Sydney
THE Transvaal troops exploded three bridges on the railway line to Kroonstadt. The British artillery, at Fourteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War London
Four British officers and troopers were attacked by Boers near Bloemfontein. Hon E. Lygon, brother of Earl Beauchamp was killed, and Colonel Crabbe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News. Sydney
The London Times estimates that 2000 Boers have been killed during the present campaign, and their estimated casualties to date 15,000. It is…
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