The Transvaal War. Botha and Surrender
A Blue Book has been published as an answer to pro-Boer critics, showing that in June last General Botha, the .Boer Commander-in-Chief, asked for an armistice in…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1901
341 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 18
Cannon on a Soldier's Grave
In the churchyard of St. Margaret's Lowestoft, there is to be seen a curious memorial. A cannon taken from Sebastopol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Boer War
LONDON, March 1.--Major-General Smith-Dorrien and Lieutenant Colonel Alderson report large captures of stock, waggons, and prisoners. They state that the enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. Boers Demoralised
Major-General Smith-Dorrien and Lieut-Colonel Alderson report large captures of stock. waggons and prisoners. They state that the enemy has become demoralised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, March 1
The "Daily News" slates that General Botha has offered to surrender on certain terms, and that negotiations continue. Lord Kitchener is still at Middelburg. Major-General Smith-Dorrien and…
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De Wet and Steyn with 1500 Boers swam across the Orange River. They took five carts aud waggons and two ambulances across, but abandoned much of their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer Women on the Battlefield. Guilty of Killing the Wounded
A letter from a nurse at one of the hospitals at Cape Town throws new light upon a very unpleasant feature of the war in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A New War Terror
A recent cable message stated the American Senate had discussed in secret the matter of a new gun which was able to penetrate any armour. The following brief account of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Boer War. London, March 6th
COMMANDANT VAN BEENEN and 500 Boers are in laager at Drepkloff near Colesberg. A Boer commando has occupied Pearston…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Prophecy Realised. Chinese Gordon’s Prophecy of the War in China
There was probably no European more qualified to express on opinion of the Chinese than Chinese Gordon. His military association with China during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War News. London, March 6
The Brussels correspondent of the New York Tribune reports that a council of Boer commandsots at Pietersburg, in the Northern [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest War News. London
De Wet is scattering his forces into groups Six British columns are pursuing them. His esape at Lilfoutein was the result of British miscalculation. It is stated that the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Odds on a Soldier
As is well known, the soldier's risk of death in battle is not nearly us great as of finding a grave as the result of disease. The most competent authorities state that on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Boer War
LONDON, March 8.--Reuter's Agency states that news has reached Delagoa Bay that Lord Kitchener has granted General Botha an armistice for seven days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New War Terror
A recent cable message stated the American Senate had discussed In secret the matter of a new gun which was able to penetrate any armour. The following brief account of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War
Major General French reports the capture of a 14lb Ceruzot gun, and also of a Hotchkiss gun, making seven guns in all. Nine hundred and seventy-nine Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News. London, March 8
Reuter's Agency states that news has reached Delagoa Bay that Lord Kitchener has granted General Botha an armistice for seven days. Other reports state that Lord Kitchener and the Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest War News. London
Boer attacks on the British camps at Moselikatzenek and Hekpoort were repulses. The commandos under Bothwans and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sinews of War
Hereunder is a sample of the yarns foisted off on their unsuspecting readers by numerous Protectionist papers: “It is a well known fact that no portion of the community is so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Pole-Carew on the War
Replying to the toast of the The Army at the annual banquet of the Plymouth Mercantile Association, General Pole-Carew, whose name has been mentioned as a possible…
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