In this age, which questions all things, and which equally defends all things, even War does not lack its advocates. Arnold White, in the " National Review," tells his ...
Article : 2,825 wordsThe series of operations by which Lord Roberts turned the left of the Boer lines on the east, and successfully relieved Kimberley, are pronounced by military expert ...
Article : 318 wordsAccording to the "Times" special reporter, if it had not been for the unfortunate delay to the transport at the passage of Dekiet's Drift, necessitated by the ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Buffer has succeeded in capturing Hussar Hill, a height a little to the south of the Inhlawe Hill, or ridge. Further news states that the British have ...
Article : 92 wordsGeneral Cronje, who had succeeded in leaving unobserved the Magersfontein position with 5000 men, has now crossed the Modder, and is making for Bloemfontein. ...
Article : 235 wordsIt is now ascertained that the whole of the Boer forces succeeded in evacuating the Magersfontein position. At first it had been thought that only 5000 of the enemy, under ...
Article : 110 wordsThe London "Spectator," in discussing the Army Reorganisation Bill, urges that the army may he made truly Imperial by the permanent inclusion of bodies of colonial ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 171 wordsThe prorogation of Parliament will take place to-day at 2 p.m. The Lieutenant Governor will deliver the prorogation speech, in which the work of the session will ...
Article : 3,244 wordsGeneral French, when approaching Kimberley from the north-west side, where the beleaguering force was weakest, came into collision twice with portion of Cronje's ...
Article : 40 wordsFurther news has been received of the fierce fighting which took place on Monday last at Rensburg. The Boers, to the estimated number of 4000, made a series of ...
Article : 109 wordsGeneral de la Rey, who commanded the Free State contingent at Magersfontein, caused considerable danger and loss to the Boer forces by disobeying Cronje's orders. ...
Article : 102 wordsWhen Lieutenant-Generals Tucker and Kelly-Kenny arrived with the Seventh and Sixth Divisions at the Riet River; thus freeing Lieutenant-General French's cavalry, ...
Article : 408 wordsA meeting of the old members of the late Metropolitan Artillery Corps will be held at Messrs. Carney and Kelly's rooms, Swanston-street, on Wednesday evening. at 8 ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the Klip Drift fight, where Lieutenant-General French, whose command by this time had been increased by 10,000 mounted men, returned from Kimberley, ...
Article : 266 wordsDining the retirement from Arundel an unfortunate loss took place, owing to an oversight. The 2nd Wiltshire, who were performing ...
Article : 48 wordsThere was a large attendance of ratepayers at the St. Kilda council last night, in consequence of two letters having been sent in -- one reflecting on the mayor in ...
Article : 820 wordsA portion of the two missing companies of the 2nd Wiltshires, who had been forgotten and left behind during the retreat from Rensburg, and had been reported captured, ...
Article : 41 wordsEwan with the fuller details before as, it is by no means easy to follow the operations so successfully conducted by Lord Roberts and his generals during the last ...
Article : 765 wordsOn Saturday last during a reconnaissance by the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, the two Australian companies under Captains J. G. Legge and W. Holmes, of the New South ...
Article : 84 wordsThe combinations devised by Lord Roberts and arranged for by Lord Kitchener as chief of staff worked with machine-like precision, the movements of each column ...
Article : 188 wordsLieutenant-General Gatacre is making steady progress along the Stormberg line. On the night of Friday, the 16th inst., the British force reached Dordrecht, 40 miles ...
Article : 107 wordsReports from Ladysmith state that signs of movement have been observed in the Boer laagers around Ladysmith, especially in those on the north side. ...
Article : 136 wordsSince the retirement across the Tugela after the series of operations for the relief of Ladysmith via Potgieter's Drift, General Buller has been conducting a series of reconnaisances, especially to the eastward of his ...
Article : 111 wordsThe map gives a general idea of the operations which have been taking place since Sunday last. From Modder-bridge to Kimberley, as the crow flies, is 24 miles, which will give an idea of the distances. The object before Lord Roberts was to clear the Beer left flank by a turning movement. Hence he had to strike the drifts at a considerable distance. Finding Jacobsdal weakly held, use was made of the drifts to the west and north of Jacobsdal, and the British advance along this line resulted in the capture of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 20 Feb 1900, Page 5
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