Transvaal War. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Sunday night
The New South Wales Lancers helped to check the advance of the enemy on the eve of the battle at Belmont…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1899
186 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 7 of 10
Boer War Notes. (Specially written for the 'Champion.') (All Rights Reserved.)
The latest news to hand from the seat of war shows that matters are on the whole progressing favourably for the British, the Boer advance upon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Late War News. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday. Battle at Modder River
General Methuen's official report of the battle at Modeler River states the fight was one of the most trying in the annals of the British army. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The War. to the Relief of Kimberley. Battle of Belmont. London
Full details are now to hand in connection with the battle of Belmont, or KAffirs hill, which took place on Thursday, the 23rd instant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War
[The following wire wag received by the [?] on Monday (per Reuter) and [?] to our [?] subscribers as [?] SYDNEY Monday 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Village Religious War
A VIGOROUS battle between the Establishment and Dissent has for some months back been waged at Kettlebaston, a usually quiet little village in Suffolk, which coasts, in addition to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Week's War News
The Welch miners have each contributed 6d to the War Relief Fund, find will pay 1d each per week to the fund during the continuance of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. London
CABLES from the Cape announce that at 6 o’clock on Saturday morning a force of 2500 Boers, with eight guns, attacked the brigade commanded by Lord Mcthuen at Grasspan, a little north of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Queen’s Chaplain on the War
WRITING on the 20th October, the London correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says :—The venerable chaplain to the Queen and the household troops at Windsor, the Rev. Arthur Robins,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telegraphic Intelligence, [Reuter’s Agency,]latest War News. London, Nov. 30
The British forces is “South Africa are being increased to 90,000 men. Sir Redvers Buller commands the Ladysmith relief column…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War. London, December 9
The British casualties at the battle of Madder amounted to 438 killed and wounded. Pontoons have been despatched…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. London
General Joubert, Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal forces, has temporarily retired from the command, owing to illness. Schalk, a burgher,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The War. LONDON
The British troops are almost maddened by thirst at the Modder river, as water carts are unable to approach the water within the zone of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Transvaal War. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday. Munitions of War
The big guns and necessary supplies for General Metheun's forces have arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The War. London, December 5
Later particulars of the Madder River battle state that a desperate straggle lasted from daylight till dark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Modder River Battle. London
Exclusive of the officers already mentioned as killed in the battle at Modder River there were 73 British killed and 370 wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. N.s.w. Contingent Leaders
CAPTAIN J. M. ANTILL (Officer in Command of Mounted Rifles)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Transvaal War. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Sunday night
The British casualties at the battle at Modeler River were 438. Pontoons have been despatched from Durban for the passage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Week's War News
LORD WOLSELEY, the Commander in Chief, confirms the report that the Second Army Corps will be dispatched to South Africa Thousands thronged the streets of Capetown,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Week's War News
London, December 5. The Staff consider that the army never faced a severer sustained fire than at Modder River. Uninterrupted fighting lasted from daybreak to…
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