The Transvaal War
According to reports from Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, commanding the Kimberley relief column at Modder River the Boers under General Cronje present a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
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War News. a Story of the Last Boer War
Sir James Sivewright has told a little story of the last Boer war which affords a graphic illustration of what might have been. The story was told to a gentleman who has…
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The Times, in a leading article, comments upon the existing gravity of the military situation. It says that Methuen is hemmed in, while Buller is unable to attempt a…
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Further details of the operations under General Sir Redvers Buller in Natal state that the Boera occupied an impregnable entrcuehed position across the Tugela River, under Giobler'a Kloof, to the…
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The Boers have dammed the Tugela river and are deepening the drifts. The "Times" comments on the extreme. gravity of the situation…
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THE close of the year finds the British Empire in the throes of a war fever, and the attack…
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GENERAL CRONGE has been again reinforced at Magorsfontein. The Boers are entrenching to within three and ahalf miles of Lord Methuen's position…
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Items of interest in connection with the attempted passage of the Tugela River by the British on Friday, the 15th inst., are still coming to hand…
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The Times says that no important movement of the British forces will be made until transports and reinforcements enable commanders to move freely from the railways…
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Cronje has been again reinforced at Magersfontein. The Boers are entrenching within 3½ miles of Methuen's position. A British force reconnoitring along .the…
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London, Thursday.—The Boers are entrenching within three and a half miles of General Methuen's position. A British force reconnoitring along the…
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The report of General Schalk Burger, the Boer commander in Natal, of the battle of Tugela has been published io Pretoria. It state that the Boer casualties were only 30. In his report the…
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