Below is presented a photo, of Mr. Edward Terry, representative for Ryde in the N.S.W. Assembly. The able and genial legislator enjoys the distinction of having been the first to publish to the Federal electors of the Mother State a comprehensive and detailed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 217 wordsPerhaps no personality stands out more cearly on the Boer side than Commandant Piet Cronje. For over twenty years Cronje has been a determined enemy of the British Government. As is natural, very different views are held as to his real character. To his admirers ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 797 wordsThe man who makes a donation of £300,000 to his nation may well be looked on as a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 114 wordsThe greatest of historic sieges is that of Gibraltar, where Sir George Elliott, afterwards Lord Heathfield, successfully defied the French and Spanish forces for three and a half years, viz., from June, 1779, to February, 1783. The siege of Khartoum lasted 341 days ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 129 wordsColonial offers of support have by no means been confined to the great self-governing colonies like Canada and Australia. Among the smaller, but equally significant offers, of assistance have been the following:— ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Irish Brigade with Buller covered itself with glory in the various attacks, and the Queen not only sent her congratulations but on St. Patricks Day gave permission to the "broys" to wear the shamrock. Your Irishman makes a good fighter, and it has not been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 110 wordsWhen the Boer army is to advance in skirmishing order, the commandant or senior officer present calls out: "Maak als op jou waar skipperkjes!" This extraordinary sentence means "Pretend that you are swallows"—meaning, of course, that they are to advance ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 722 wordsThe name of Lord Dundonald came very prominently before the public in relation to Sir Redvers Buller's operations. The gallant officer led his cavalry brigade and his mounted infantry with the greatest enterprise and success, sometimes on one flank and sometimes ...
Article : 130 wordsIt has been an object lesson to the world the way in which Englishmen holding some of the highest positions in the land have volunteered for the front. The nation that can show such unselfish patriotism through all classes of its society, cannot be in the bad way ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 206 wordsWhen the late Hon. W. E. Gladstone closed the 1881 war by handing over the Transvaal to the Boers ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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