Perhaps 110 personality stands out more clearly 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 : 787 wordsBelow 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 : 209 wordsThe man who makes a donation of £300,000 to his nation may well be looked on as a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 111 wordsIt is interesting at the present time to recall the first annexation of the Transvaal by Great Britain in 1877, which led to the Boer Wat of 1881. The Boers are descended from settlers brought to the Cape by the Dutch Bast India Company in the 17th century. In 1814 the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 2 wordsThe career of Piet Cronje has been cut short for some time at least. He and a fleetful of his fellow fighters are prisoners on the lonely island of St. Helena, which is 1,695 miles from Cape Town. Beyond the fact that the Boer hates the sea and everything ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 382 wordsLord Major General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, late Sirdar of the Egyptian army and Pacha, is the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Kitchener of the 13th Dragoons, and was born in June, 1850. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 533 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, ...
Article : 120 wordsThe following story has just come to hand of Lord Kitchener, and shows what he thought of the earlier transport arrangements, He was lunching with a prominent civilian at Capetown. His host inquired, "Well, Lord Kitchener, how do you propose to reorganise ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral French, who has proved himself one of the most successful leaders of cavalry in the present campaign, was originally intended by his parents for the Navy, and actually served about four years on hoard a man-of-war, but his natural bent towards a soldier's ...
Article : 264 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 : 169 wordsMajor-General Baden-Powell, the heroic defender of Mafeking, who finds himself at the age of forty-three, the idol of the British Empire, is a Londoner. He was born at 6 Stanhope Street, Hyde Park, on February 22nd, 1857. His father was first Vicar of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 388 wordsThe Irish Brigade with Butler 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 44 "boys" to wear the shamrock. Your Irishman makes a good fighter, and it has not been ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Right Hon. Major-General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., is the eldest surviving son of the late James Wentworth Holler, M.P., of Downes, Crediton, Devonshire, and Charlotte, daughter of the late Lord H. Howard, and was born in 1839. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 469 wordsThe name or 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 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 128 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 ...
Article : 148 wordsAn alphabetical arrangement of Major-General Baden-Powell's attributes:—Active, bold, cautious, determined, energetic, fearless, generous, honest, intrepid, jocund, keen, loyal, merry, naive, obstinate, persistent, quiet, resourceful, steadfast, tactical, unconquerable, ...
Article : 49 wordsWhen the German Military Attache, with Sir Redvers Buller. was first shown the Boer lines at Colenso, he was perfectly astounded at their strength, and remarked to his conductors that he could not have believed them so perfectly defensible and almost impregnable ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 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 : 204 wordsThere's a little red-faced man, Which is Bobs! Rides the tallest 'orse 'c can—Our Bobs! ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 524 wordsThorneycroft's Mounted Infantry distinguished itself at the battle of Spion Kop, when General Woodgate was so severely wounded as to be compelled to leave the field, Lieutenant-Colonel Thorneycroft, in charge of the Mounted Infantry, succeeded to the command, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 203 wordsIn the year 1885 Lord Roberts issued an order to have the whole equipment of field and mountain batteries in India, including even the wheels and guns themselves painted khaki. This was a striking change from the dark colour they had previously been painted, and ...
Article : 64 wordsWhen the late Hon. W. E. Gladstone closed the 1881 war by handing over the Transvaal to the Boers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 143 wordsLord Roberts, better and more familiarly known as "Bobs," is the son of the late General Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B., and of Nora Henrietta, daughter of Major A. Bunbary, of Tipperary. He was born at Cawnpore on September 30, 1832, and was educated at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Armidale Chronicle (NSW : 1894 - 1929), Sat 8 Dec 1900, Page 2
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