Thank God We Kept the Flag Flying: The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith, 1899-1900 |
Contents
The Eve of War I | 1 |
The War Begins | 21 |
The Battle of Elandslaagte | 41 |
Copyright | |
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18th Hussars army arrived attack battalions Battery battle bayonets began Boer guns Boer position Brigade British soldiers burghers Caesar's Camp Cape Captain cavalry cheer Colenso Colonel column command cross dead December Dundee east Elandslaagte enemy February fighting fire flank force front going gunners H. W. Nevinson Hlangwane Hussars Imperial Light Horse Irish Fusiliers January Joubert killed King's Royal Rifles kopje Kruger Lieutenant looked Lord Dundonald Lord Roberts Louis Botha Major Marling miles military morning Mounted Infantry move Natal night November October officers Orange Free Penn-Symons Potgieter's Drift Pretoria railway Regiment relief of Ladysmith replied retreat Royal Field Artillery shell shot side siege Sir George White Sir Redvers Buller South Africa Spion Kop Taba Nyama Talana Hill telegram Thorneycroft town Transvaal trenches troops Tugela Heights Tugela river Umbulwana Vaal Krantz volunteers Wagon Hill Warren Winston Churchill wounded wrote yards