Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in NatalW. Blackwood, 1901 - 343 sider |
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... Boers go to show that many a patriot mouth and pair of eyes opened very wide indeed at the spectacle of human beings literally unstoppable by flying lead . It was Sir John Moore who said that British soldiers were " no good in a ...
... Boers go to show that many a patriot mouth and pair of eyes opened very wide indeed at the spectacle of human beings literally unstoppable by flying lead . It was Sir John Moore who said that British soldiers were " no good in a ...
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... of his own initiative , to the varying requirements of an action . This difference will never be better exemplified than it has been during the campaign against the Boers . There can be no comparison between 22 THE STRUGGLE IN NATAL .
... of his own initiative , to the varying requirements of an action . This difference will never be better exemplified than it has been during the campaign against the Boers . There can be no comparison between 22 THE STRUGGLE IN NATAL .
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... Boers and a dozen English private soldiers were to be pitted against each other , say from opposite ends of a three - mile stretch of average South African country , the Britons would probably be surrounded , without , perhaps , having ...
... Boers and a dozen English private soldiers were to be pitted against each other , say from opposite ends of a three - mile stretch of average South African country , the Britons would probably be surrounded , without , perhaps , having ...
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... Boers and savages naturally possess , and which many of his officers have either acquired by practice or bitter experience , or supplement by precautions which may be called its artificial equivalents . He is neither cautious nor ...
... Boers and savages naturally possess , and which many of his officers have either acquired by practice or bitter experience , or supplement by precautions which may be called its artificial equivalents . He is neither cautious nor ...
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... Boers were making a desperate attempt to storm the town , without the hurried helio messages coming to acquaint General Clery ( General Buller was , I think , away on this day ) with the position of affairs . " Attacked on every side ...
... Boers were making a desperate attempt to storm the town , without the hurried helio messages coming to acquaint General Clery ( General Buller was , I think , away on this day ) with the position of affairs . " Attacked on every side ...
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