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Murray · The wars & local soldiers
440 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 22
In his final baton of despatches just issued, Earl Roberta makes a striking reference to the arrival at Ladysmith in the autumn of 1899 (a few days before the issue of the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Throughout the whole field of operations, from the Northern Transvaal to far down in the South of the Gape, small British forces are continually harassing the broken bands of Boers who now…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Beer Generals have ordered the burghers to kill every armed soldier and policeman. The documents found in Brocksma's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A party of Menn's colonial scouts, while following 50 Boers near Platsrand, were surrounded by 200 Boers. The scouts charged through the enemy, killing and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British columns in various parts of the field of operations are severely harassing the Boer commandos, and inflicting considerable losses upon them…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Lord Kitchener reports that several severe defeats have been inflicted upon the enemy in various parts of the field of operations. In the Western Transvaal Lord Methuen, who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Boers are raiding the Upper [?] in the north-west of Natal. Fighting is reported at Acton Holmes, near Ladysmith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General French reports that the Boers broke a cordon hemming them, and rushed a squadron of the Seventeenth Lancers at Elands River poort…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Tucker gives the losses at Vlakfontein as 6 killed, 23 wounded and 105 mining. Of the latter 4 officers and 95 men were retailed into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandant The[?] has crossed the railway line near [?] River, after an indecisive fight. A farmer was arrested for giving false…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the recent visit of the Czar Nicholas to Germany and France, a conspicuous feature of the speeches delivered at the public banquets was the ostentations avowal of pacific principles…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Advices from Brussels state that Mr. Kruger's funds are almost exhausted. He is paying numerous refugees who are in the service of the so-called Boer Government…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Several reverses have occurred to the British arms in Sooth Africa. In one case, the particulars are reported by General French, who is in command of the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Further details are published of the reverse sustained by the detachment of the 17th Lancers, under the command of Major V. S. Sandeman, at Eland's River Poort,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schooper's commando has crowed the Oliphant's River, and is travelling south eastwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Hamilton has reported officially that on Thursday last the forts at Itala and Prospect, on the Zululand border, were attacked by 1500 Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The great Duke of Wellington preserved for many years, at Strathfieldsaye, a horseshoe that he had picked up on the eve of his crowning victory at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although nothing definite ia known regarding the recent movements of General Botha, who has been threatening to invade Natal, it is believed that on Thursday last he attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The recent activity on the part of the Boers has forcibly directed the attention of the press and the public to the operations at the front, and there is a disposition in some…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Boer women at Vryheid lined the streets after the disaster to the mounted infantry under Major Gough, and j[?]ered at the released and wounded men and also at the…
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