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Advertising : 7 wordsThe intelligence given last week that General Buller had crossed the Tugela was confirmed towards the end of the week by a War Office despatch, which intimated that ...
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Article : 2,021 wordsPresident Kruger has seized Robinson's Bank at Johannesburg and transferred the customers' accounts to the National Bank. ...
Article : 20 wordsFive Boer prisoners, who were, confined at Simonstown, near Capetown, made a desperate attempt to escape. They seized a number of firearms,and wounded a ...
Article : 44 wordsPresident Kruger and President Steyn, of the Orange State, having complained to Commandant-General Joubert of the inactivity of the Boer forces in Natal, the latter ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Highland troops, under Major-General Hector Macdonald, encountered a strong force of the enemy to the west of Koodoosberg. ...
Article : 289 wordsReassuring heliographic messages have been received from Ladysmith stating that the garrison is able to hold out for weeks. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe disloyal Dutch who were taken prisoners at the recent engagement at Sunnyside, in which Canadian, Queensland, and British troops took part under Lieutenant. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Capetown, correspondent of the "Times" says that the more Colonial troops sent to South Africa the better. The continual stream ot Colonials, he says, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe British Government has purchased 5000 horses in Hungary. ...
Article : 17 wordsField-Marshall Lord Roberta, the Commander-in-Chief, has arrived at Modder River from Sterstroon, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception by the troops. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Boer forces have occupied a hill on Bray's farm. South of the Tugela, and within an hour's ride of Chieveley. The occupation of this position, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Boers have taken control of the magistracy at Nkandhla, in Zululand. Previous to his departure the magistrate, Mr. Knight, exploded the magazine, and ...
Article : 9 wordsPrior to the retirement of the British forces under General Sir Redvers Buller on Wednesday evening across the Tugela, Major-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttelton ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. P. L. Russell, of Carngham, Victoria has accepted a commission in the South Staffordshire Milltin,and will proceed at once to the front with his regiment. ...
Article : 14 wordsSupplementary Estimates to the amount of £10,000,000 have been, laid on the table of the Committee of Supply in the House of Commons. The money will be used for ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Boers report that heavy firing took place on Wednesday night in the direction of Ladysmith. It is believed the garrison was attempting ...
Article : 44 wordsAccording to a secret memorandum, prepared for the Transvaal Volksrand before it closed its session, the Boers had 230 modern guns prior to tho war. ...
Article : 42 wordsIt Is announced that Lieutenant-General Sir C. F. Clery, K.C.B in command of the second division of the Army Corps, at present operating in Natal, is returning to ...
Article : 36 wordsA Reuter message states, that the foreign attaches who recently arrived at Capetown have left for the front. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Boers assert that they compelled an armored train, with a force of 2000 men, which was threatening their right on Tuesday, to return to Chleveley. ...
Article : 34 wordsPresident Steyn has promised to relcase Colonel H. A. Eager, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles who was wounded and captured at Magerafontein, as soon as he is ...
Article : 37 wordsOn Friday 50 Australia and Tasmanian troops, under the command of Captain C. St. Clair Cameron, the commanding officer of the Tasmanian Contingent, made a ...
Article : 129 wordsA balloon reconnaissance has revealed to General Sir Redvers Buller a dozen cunningly-masked guns at Doorn Kloof, commanding the Ladysmith road. It was the ...
Article : 43 wordsBy the end of February the British forces at the front in South Africa will number 1,94,000 men, including 20,000 militia. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. W. J. Lambie, the correspondent for the Melbourne "Age," has been killed and Mr. A. G. Hales ("smiler"), a Western Australian pressman, captured. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt has been ascertained that the Boers are not surrounded near Colesberg, as was reported to be the case. They hold the whole of the northern semi-circle ...
Article : 45 wordsA corps, composed of New South Wales troops, was shelled by a Vickers-Maxim gun near Coles Kop. No casualties resulted. ...
Article : 44 wordsLieutenant F. G. Tait, of the Black Watch Regiment, a noted golfer, was killed in action at Koodoosberg. It is estimated that the Boers lost 100 men. ...
Article : 8 wordsA prisoner states that the Boers have had so many horses killed that they are forming infantry corps. ...
Article : 18 wordsLyddite has silenced the Vickers-Maxim gun which was annoying the British and Colonial troops near Cole's Kop, inthe vicinity of Colesberg. ...
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Advertising : 112 wordsThe Boers have been bombarding Kimberley with a six-Inch gun since the 7th instant. The assallants are increasing in numbers ...
Article : 33 wordsFive thousand additional troops embarked on February 10 for South Africa, included the first troop of Lord Loch's Coutingent of veterans. ...
Article : 31 wordsTwenty Western Australian troops, under the command of Captain H. G. Moor, discovered the Boers in the act of placing a gun near Slingersfntein, eight miles ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 3,342 wordsSir Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P. for Plymouth, has been censured by his constituents, for his attitude with regard to the Boer war, as indicated by his recent ...
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