Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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Էջ 124
... Boers on a line of koppjes , a few miles east of Belmont Station , and attacked at once the Scots and Grenadier Guards had advanced to within fifty yards when the Boers opened a scath- ing rifle - fire which staggered them , forcing ...
... Boers on a line of koppjes , a few miles east of Belmont Station , and attacked at once the Scots and Grenadier Guards had advanced to within fifty yards when the Boers opened a scath- ing rifle - fire which staggered them , forcing ...
Էջ 126
... Boers have escaped with little loss after the actual assault . Now , it is laid down that the defeated enemy must not be allowed a moment's breathing- time if the defeat is to be turned into a disaster : he must be pursued with ...
... Boers have escaped with little loss after the actual assault . Now , it is laid down that the defeated enemy must not be allowed a moment's breathing- time if the defeat is to be turned into a disaster : he must be pursued with ...
Էջ 127
... Boers is thrown away on them . Our mounted men have yet to learn a lesson from them . shape of a horseshoe , which encircled the plateau on which our troops were advancing . When they started there was no sign of the enemy , the hot ...
... Boers is thrown away on them . Our mounted men have yet to learn a lesson from them . shape of a horseshoe , which encircled the plateau on which our troops were advancing . When they started there was no sign of the enemy , the hot ...
Էջ 128
... Boers as to their flank , and of the value of working round them so as to threaten their ponies in rear ; but koppjes and boulders are very much on the side of the Boer in South Africa . no On the 27th November the troops left Gras Pan ...
... Boers as to their flank , and of the value of working round them so as to threaten their ponies in rear ; but koppjes and boulders are very much on the side of the Boer in South Africa . no On the 27th November the troops left Gras Pan ...
Էջ 129
... Boers from the bridge , which the Guards were to rush and force the passage . To do this they fell in and moved steadily under cover of an old reservoir ; but the instant they showed outside , and were within 150 yards of the apparently ...
... Boers from the bridge , which the Guards were to rush and force the passage . To do this they fell in and moved steadily under cover of an old reservoir ; but the instant they showed outside , and were within 150 yards of the apparently ...
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