The Transvaal War. London, Dec. 13
The silence observed by Sir William Gatacre in regard to the British reverse near the Stormberg, and the absence of detailed information as to the lossse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Southern Highlands · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1899
98 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 5 of 5
The Transvaal War
The Transvaal war has Seen full of surprises from beginning to end. The British Government candidly admit that they never thought the two Dutch republics could…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War and Patriotism
About whether England or the Transvaal is in the right opinion is divided, most being on the side of England. But we cannot fail to give the Boers credit for a patriotism in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War General Buller Defeated
The British troops under General Sir Redvers Buller sustained a serious reverse at Colenso on Friday. At 4 a.m. the General ordered an attack from Chievely on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. the British Reverse at Magersfontein. Further Details London, Dec 14
General Lord Me[?]huen’a Rimberley relief column has suffered a severe repulse at Magersfontein, about midway between Modder River and Kimberley…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Horrors of War. [Contributed.]
THE daily papers are beginning to give us the plain, unvarnished details of the war as it progresses. Needless to say, these details are not per cable, but are extracted from the Cape and London Journals…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Transvaal War. London, Dec. 14
The latest despatches to hand regarding Lieutenant General Lord Metbuen's repulse at Magersfontein state that the Highland Brigade,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. London, Dec. 18
At the battle of Magerstonten on the 11 instant all of the scandinavian commando, numbering 85 men under Baron Fadersowolds, were either…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. More Local Men, Wanted
OWING to the reverses experienced, by the British troops in South Africa it has been deemed necessary to reinforce them by a large number of addttionol troops. The offer of the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Dally Hail War Train. How It Broke the Record a Speed of 81 Miles an Hour Attained
With commondable enterprise the proprietore of the London "Daily mail" decided to give the citizense of manchester 206 miles form London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War
Further particulars regarding the Tugela River engagement on Friday last show that the Boers had ten guns which were excellently masked and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War Dec. 18
Field Marshal Lord Roberts has been appointed Commander-in-Chief, and Lord Kitchener Chief of the Staff in South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transvaal War. London, Dec. 19
Further details of tho operations under General Sir Redvers Buller in Natal state that the Boers occupied an impregnable entrenched position…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. London, Dec. 20
Trooper U. Bradford, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, one of the New Zealand contingent was killed in the action, in which the Australian and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War
The[?] are no [?] developments of the Transvaal war [?] anticipated [?] the arrival [?] in South Africa. Meanwhile the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Transvaal War
There are on further developments of the Transvaal was and [?] anticipate [?] the arrival of [?] in South Africa. Mean while the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transvaal War
It has transpired that 1850 disloyalists fought with. the Boers at Stormberg when Liontanant-Genoral Sir W. F. Gstaere's division was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. London, Dec. 26
The report of General Sehalk Burger, the Boer Commander in Natal, of the battle of Tugela Las been published in Pretoria. It states that…
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