The China War. London
A foreign Minister at Pekin, discussing the amount of indemnity to be demanded from China, estimated that China could pay a four million pounds annuity on a loan to cover an indemnity…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
223 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 12
The Transvaal War. London
A force of 200 British, after zig-zagging for several days and nights, succeeding in outwitting the Boers and expelling them from Petrnsburg, west of Bloemfontein…
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Two guns of “A” Battery, New South Wales Artillery, and a force of irregulars, police, and Welsh militia dislodged 400 raiders from the vicinity…
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Colonel Pitcher and Major Crewe had a severe engagement with 2000 Boers under De Wet, on January 31st. Some dashing feats were seen, but the British lost their…
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The Rev. Mr. Duplessis, the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Lindley, Orange River Colo[?]p, implo[?]es the C[?]pe Dutch clergy to [?]cease…
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The New Zealand Government has decided to establish a regular service of reliefs to South Africa. The first of these batches of 300 men will leave…
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During an attack on a Boer laager, at Ermelo, General French's forces killed 40 of the enemy, and captured 200 prisoners. In addition to this, the British secured a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer War., Casualties in the Mounted Rifles Regiment
The first Mounted Infantry sent from this colony to South Africa was a company of 100 men, under Major J M Antil, recruited chiefly from the…
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Colonel F. D. Pilcher and Major Crewe, on opposite sides of the Tabaksberg range, close to the Basutoland [?] engaged a large force of Boers…
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SOCIAL politics once more begin to claim attention. Those of the State will soon begin to be painfully pressing for, if we mistake not, the Government before very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?]r War. LONDON, February 11
Major E. [?] who is commanding at [?] in Cape Colony, has called into the town all males, farmers, and others in the…
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WE have heard a great deal concerning the good work which our soldiers have done in South Africa, and the papers are daily publishing items of news relating to the immense trade which has…
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General Christian De Wet, with 2000 men, clossed the Zands' D[?]ft, north west of Philippo[?] into Cape Colony, on Monday, the 11th instant…
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London, Monday,—Further particulars of the battle at Haut Kraal, 30 miles north of Dwe Aar junction, show that De Wet and Steyn, while…
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General Shalckburyer advises the Boers to surrender as a nation, their cause being hopeless. The Boers derailed a transport train at…
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Mr. JOHN MAY Merriwee, has received the following letter from his son, Mavon:--99 Erskineville Street, Erskineville,…
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Of the drifts, or foids, over the Orange River into Cape Colony, the Zand Drist was the only one which the British had not mined…
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Schalk Burger, in his efforts to induce the Boers to lay down their arms, has told the burghers that their cause was hopeless, and that further hostilities were futile…
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The Australian Bushmen and the New Zealand Roughriders. under Brigadier-General Plumer, followed Commandant de Wet and his forces…
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Commandant De Wet crossed the Orange River in a boat with only a handful of followers. Thrice on Friday he failed to cross the flooded…
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