Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in NatalW. Blackwood, 1901 - 343 sider |
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... summit of Bulwana , and between the heavy detonations of the big guns a low and continu- ous growl of musketry . Plain enough that the Boers were making a desperate attempt to storm the town , without the hurried helio messages coming ...
... summit of Bulwana , and between the heavy detonations of the big guns a low and continu- ous growl of musketry . Plain enough that the Boers were making a desperate attempt to storm the town , without the hurried helio messages coming ...
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... summit . There is a scuffle , a blast of musketry like the sound of rending calico , and the ridge , the barbican of the main work behind , is British property . Why Hart and Hildyard were allowed to win these outworks so easily is not ...
... summit . There is a scuffle , a blast of musketry like the sound of rending calico , and the ridge , the barbican of the main work behind , is British property . Why Hart and Hildyard were allowed to win these outworks so easily is not ...
Side 51
... before we were starting for our new position , sights began to appear on the summit of the mountain which explained all . Spion Kop had been seized in the night . One has learnt this much of caution in South Africa DIES IRÆ . 51.
... before we were starting for our new position , sights began to appear on the summit of the mountain which explained all . Spion Kop had been seized in the night . One has learnt this much of caution in South Africa DIES IRÆ . 51.
Side 52
... summit of Spion Kop was little enough ; but it was enough , -enough , at any rate , to have rendered the subsequent re- crimination and insinuation dreadful to the mind of a mere soldier in its unfairness and duplicity . As we started ...
... summit of Spion Kop was little enough ; but it was enough , -enough , at any rate , to have rendered the subsequent re- crimination and insinuation dreadful to the mind of a mere soldier in its unfairness and duplicity . As we started ...
Side 53
... summit itself . When the last filmy coil had disappeared , one could see the crowded figures of the British force like little black marionettes against the light - blue sky , and how thick they appeared ! Surely the summit must be very ...
... summit itself . When the last filmy coil had disappeared , one could see the crowded figures of the British force like little black marionettes against the light - blue sky , and how thick they appeared ! Surely the summit must be very ...
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