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Broken Hill & the Far West · The wars & local soldiers
345 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 18
Details continue to come through concerning the battle at Tugela River on Friday last. Previous to the engagement, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No actual declaration of war had been made, so the British authorities with easy confidence were unprepared for any emergency. On the 20th December, 1880, a convoy under Lieutenant-Colonel Austruther was marching from Lydenberg to Pretoria when suddenly they were confronted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Continental press acknowledge the dignity and calmness of the British nation, and while criticising the British Generals' tactics, they applaud…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queen gave her patronage to a concert held in the Albert Hall last night, under the auspices of the Empire League, in aid of the relief fund for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further details of General Buller's [?]ever[?]e, show that the Boers occupied an impregnable entrenched position under Grobler's Hill, their guns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Since the commencement of the present war by the Boers against the British several traitorous letters have appeared in your columns; but surely that which is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The friends of Sir William Butler, who was relieved of his command in Cape Colony by the War Office, declare that Sir William had fully advised the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It has transpired that the Boers have recently received 150,000 rifles from Europe, landed via Delagoa Bay. The British Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, who leaves London for South Africa on Saturday, will meet General Lord Kitchener, his chief-of-staff, at Madiera…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further details of the repulse of Lord Methuen's column last Monday, in its attack on the Boer entrenchments and fortifications, show that five-sixths of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several of the war correspondents of English newspapers with General Buller's force assert that the Boers have abandoned the southern bank of the Tugela…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Hay, a son of Colonel Hay, United States Secretary of State, who has been appointed United States consul at Pretoria, is making inquiries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 1st battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment (40th Foot) has been ordered to Durban. The War Office has completed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boers used smokeless powder in the battle of Tugela River, and this, it is alleged, largely contributed to General Buller's reverse. It was impossible,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is said that whilst the war is popular among the rank and file of the British regiments passing through Cape Town or Durban, it is not popular with the officers, because…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ben Tillott, writing in the Clarion of November 18, observes:—"I am glad some of us have broken with the wretched spuffling which is going on in the name of socialism…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many of the British newspapers bitterly complain that the British artillery now in South Africa is antiquated as compared with the Boer guns, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The report of General Schalk Burger, the Boer commander, of the battle of Tugela River, published in Pretoria, the Transvaal capital, states that the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Major-General French, commandant of the N. S. W. military forces, has been granted leave of absence to enable him to go to the front in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Several drafts of regiments and males for carrying ammunition are arriving daily at Cape Town, and are being sent forward…
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