Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in NatalW. Blackwood, 1901 - 343 sider |
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... light heart " may find his possession a curiously heavy one when the prick of inexorable Time has let out the passion which inflated it . " LINESMAN . " + TRANSVAAL , September 1901 . CONTENTS . PAGE I. OUR SOLDIERS 1 II . AFTER vi ...
... light heart " may find his possession a curiously heavy one when the prick of inexorable Time has let out the passion which inflated it . " LINESMAN . " + TRANSVAAL , September 1901 . CONTENTS . PAGE I. OUR SOLDIERS 1 II . AFTER vi ...
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... Light Horse , and other fighting - men on the bullet - swept hills above Ladysmith I have no space here to speak . So much glory should find its chronicler amongst those who won it , not from one who in the most desperate hour of all ...
... Light Horse , and other fighting - men on the bullet - swept hills above Ladysmith I have no space here to speak . So much glory should find its chronicler amongst those who won it , not from one who in the most desperate hour of all ...
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... light in the evening , and friend and foe sink down where they have crouched all day , too weary even to hate any more . All this sounds very unlikely and grotesque , but we assure the unbattled reader that it is true . The emotions ...
... light in the evening , and friend and foe sink down where they have crouched all day , too weary even to hate any more . All this sounds very unlikely and grotesque , but we assure the unbattled reader that it is true . The emotions ...
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... South African Light Horse , was killed next day by a shell on the very scene of his daring . I regret that I have been unable to find out his name . the aforementioned Sugar Loaf Hill , profound recesses and gorges DIES IRE . 39.
... South African Light Horse , was killed next day by a shell on the very scene of his daring . I regret that I have been unable to find out his name . the aforementioned Sugar Loaf Hill , profound recesses and gorges DIES IRE . 39.
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... ridiculous in a sword angrily brandished at an enemy a thousand yards away . Soldiers under the eye of a man like this do not fire dropping shots , the rifles blaze and bellow and volley as soon as there is light DIES IRE . 43.
... ridiculous in a sword angrily brandished at an enemy a thousand yards away . Soldiers under the eye of a man like this do not fire dropping shots , the rifles blaze and bellow and volley as soon as there is light DIES IRE . 43.
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