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Ingogo
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Other sites by Meander Webs. Soon after, the engagement opened in earnest. A hot fire was kept up by the 9-. Pounder in charge of Lieutenant Farsons, R.A. to which the enemy replied directly the gun was discharged, by a hail of bullets aimed at the gunners while they reloaded. Ammunition and even gunners having run short -. The fighting began, and, for the small body of British troops, continued disastrously. At last, when darkness came on, both sides were forced to cease firing. Now and then, on...The d...
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Isandlwana, an hour by hour account
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Other sites by Meander Webs. AN HOUR BY HOUR ACCOUNT. An Epic of Zululand (From the Zululand Times January, 17, 1952). On Tuesday of next week January 22 falls the 73rd anniversary of one of the saddest epics in the annals of Zululand. It was on that day in 1879 that the disastrous. Battle of Isandlwana was fought -. A battle in which the defenders of that outpost of the British Empire were slaughtered almost to a man by the triumphant Zulus who were sweeping down towards Natal. The camp was guarded by a...
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VC's
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Other sites by Meander Webs. Queen Victoria was pleased to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the following officers, non-. Commissioned officers, and men, whose claims were submitted to her Majestys approval, for their conspicuous bravery in South Africa, as stated against their names. The names are arranged according to the dates on which they were performed the deeds that earned the distinction. An asterisk denotes the V. C. s conferred by King Edward VII. Blank range, these two officers v...
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Battles / Sieges
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Other sites by Meander Webs. The Occupation of Dundee. 15/11/1899 Armoured train wrecked. 09/12/1899 Reverse at Stormberg. BATTLES OF THE SECOND ANGLO BOER WAR. The Growth of the Transvaal. Isandlwana, an hour by hour account. The First Anglo Boer War. The Fate of SGT Elliot. The Siege of Pretoria. The Fate of the Raiders.
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Isandlwana
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Other sites by Meander Webs. The force under Lord Chelmsfords command was divided into four columns. These were composed partly of British soldiers, partly of Colonists, and partly of blacks. The first column, under Colonel Pearson, crossed the Lower Tugela; the second, under Lieutenant-. West The plan was for the four columns to converge upon Ulundi, in the neighbourhood of the kings kraal, where fighting might be expected to begin. He might be dead, he might be missing-. Meanwhile Lord Chelmsford had h...
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Majuba
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Other sites by Meander Webs. Sometimes round wrong tracks, owing to mistakes of the guide, and sometimes over grass and glassy slopes, where a man could make progress merely by means of hands and knees. Thus the force stealthily ascended, creeping up in ones and twos, the General and staff leading the way in ever-. Increasing darkness and silence. From their point of vantage it seemed as though the British had the Boers at their mercy. Entrenchments or no entrenchments on the summit-. This order was obey...
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Deaths
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Other sites by Meander Webs. Die, for Gods sake, men, but dont leave your guns. 4: In action at Colesberg : Major C.Bateston -. Harvey, Lieutenant A.V. West. 5 Disease: Major C.P. Walker, Lieut. C.P. Russell, Lieut. C.S. Platt. 6 In action at Rensburg: Lieutenant-. Colonel A.J Watson, Lieut. F.A.P. Wilkins, Lieutenant S. J. Carey, Lieutenant C. A. White. Action at Ladysmith : Lieutenant-. Cunyngham, V.C. , Major Miller-. 11 Wounds received at Ladysmith : Captain the Earl of Ava. 23 In action at Chieveley...
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Reasons for the Anglo Boer War
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Other sites by Meander Webs. Like a gigantic picture-. Cannot be considered at close quarters. To fully appreciate the situation, and all that it embraces, the critic must stand at a suitable distance. He must gaze not merely with the eye of to-. Breeders, agriculturists, and itinerant traders. These original Cape Colonists were descendants of Dutchmen of the lower classes, men of peasant stamp, who were joined in 1689 by a contingent of Huguenot refugees. The disgust of the Cape Dutch may be imagined!
