Latest War News. The Battle of Tugela
Native deserters from the Boer camp report that the Boer casualties in the recent fight at Tugela River numbered 1000, and that seven guns were disabled. They also…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1900
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The Transvaal War
LONDON, January 31.--The "Daily Mail" correspondent at Capetown cables that General Buller on Monday last read to Sir Charles Warren's forces a message from the Queen…
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FIELD MARSRAL LORD ROBERTS, who is still at the Cape is busily engaged in actively organising his forces. Addressing the first arrivals of the City of…
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British flying squadron reached northern Zululand. It consists of experienced colonial scouts, and will probably harass Transvaal communications above…
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The fiscal fight of the coming federation is gradually begloning to shape itself, Mr. Pulsford, uncompromising representative of the conservative freetraders, or Cobdenites,…
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The Cape police captured 1000 head of cattle, the property of Dutch rebels, A squadron of Lord Kitcheners Light Horse is ready for the front…
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General Buller has prepared an immense convoy of stores for Ladysmith. BOERS ENCLOSED. General French's column has enclosed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Great Boer Conspiracy. a Tale of the Transvaal War 1899-1900. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Xii—continued
"I think the authoress ought to be proscouted for obtaining money under false pretences,'' remarked the Hon. Cecil Broad stairs, dryly. "The book all through…
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The War Office has not confirmed the report that General Buller. had recrossed the Tugola. The "Warrigal " with the "A" battery, has arrived at Capetown…
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LONDON, Tuesday. -- Sir William V. Harcourt in supporting Lord Edmund Fitzma[?]rice's motion of censure said that the inquiry must be made now or never, and that the war was…
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LORD ROBERTS wrote to General Joubert proffering to release Pretorius, that brave soldier having had his leg amputated. His wife in thanking General Buller, asked that…
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THE other day an amusing spectacle was witnessed in Eastcheap by the crowd of after-dinner loungers who frequent that thoroughfare about two o'clock. In…
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PRIVATE CARNS, of the Wallsend Company, 4th Infantry Regiment, writing to Major Nash from Enslin camp, January 3, says:—"Last night…
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General French has despatched an overwhelming force to seize Norval's Point on the Orange Free State frontier, with the object of cutting off the Boers'…
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A Hanoverian officer declares that 10,000 trained European soldiers and 800 officers are assisting the Boers. Colonel Baden-Powell reports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Friday's News. the Crossing of the Tugela
Further particulars of General Buller's crossing of the Tugela River, state that the Boers at Doorn Kloop directed a heavy shell fire which arrested the…
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Gymnasium practice is one of the requirements of the German army, as well as special military practice in scaling walls. To test the soldier's agility and strength…
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The War Office is informed that General Buller crossed the Tugela on Monday, and advanced towards Ladysmith to re-enter Spearsmen's camp. The Navals opened fire at 7 a.m. on Monday…
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THE New South Wales Patriotic Fund has now reached £17,481. The contributions to the Bushmens' Contingent Fund amount to £25.944…
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THE War Office is informed that General Buller crossed the Tugela oil Monday, and now advancing towards Ladysmith to re enter Spearman's Camp…
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