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New England · The wars & local soldiers
923 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 47
Two volumes, of despathes covering the period of Lord Roberts' command graphically reveal some terrible drawbacks encountered by the British army…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colnel [?] and Major Crewe had a serve engagement with 2000 [?] under De Wet, an January 31st…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is one of many very sad war relief stories: A Glasgow woman, with two of a family, received a notification from headquarters at South Afriea…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small bodies of Boers continue to enter Cape Colony, and are appearing in the [?] Prince Prince Albert and Richmond district…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The enemy violently attacked MajorGeneral Smith Dorrien's outposts at Gothwell, near Rietretief, in the Eastern Transvaal. The British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Foreign Ministers at Pekin insist that Tung-fuh-Siang shall be executed. They also insist that a sentence of execution shall be passed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Many people are under the impression that when Tommy Atkins is ordered off to war his pay is stopped until all the fighting is over, when it is presented to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AS every evil bas its compensations, the war in which we are now engaged, and which before it is over is certain to bring unspeakable misery to hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A report has been received that Lieutenant Colonel Pilcher and Major Crewe, operating on opposite sides of the Thebaksberg Range, to the eastward of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British have occupied Ficksburg, and the Boers are retreating to Fouriessburg. There are indications that the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CORPORAL GEORGE CHALLIS, of the N.S.W. Bushmen, has died from enteric fever at Johannesburg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following epitaph, in Brighton churchyard, details a singular story :-- 'In memory of Phoebe Hessel, who was born at Stepney in the year 1713. She…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Boer commando crossed she Orange River in the Phiilipstown district on Wednesday. It is understood that De Wet is in command…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ELEVEN cases of plague are reported from Capetown. Colonel Pilcher and Major Crewe had a serve engagement with 2000 Bores under De…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Cartwright, editor of the "South African News," has been arrested on a charge of having published a seditious libel, reproduced from a London…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A sharp fight has taken place at Klipplaat Junction, 61 miles south of Graaf Reinet, between the British and the Boers under Commandant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The details of the tight at Klippl[?]t Junction on the 6th instant show that the British force held several hundred Boers at bay for hours. The force…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In attacking the Boer laanger at Ermelo, a town in the eastern districts of the Transvaal, last week General French killed forty of the Boers and captured 200…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some brisk fighting has taken place in the Philipstown district between various British detachments and the Boers under Commandants Haasbruck and Woest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THAT even war has its humourous side is shown by the occasional interchange of a good-natured chaff between Boer and Briton. Shells marked 'With…
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