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... African to ride ; other Africans were put on a kind of trolley that could be pushed along the road . On the 7th they reached Heidelberg ; on the 10th Water- val , over a hundred miles south - east of Johannesburg ; by the 13th they had ...
... African to ride ; other Africans were put on a kind of trolley that could be pushed along the road . On the 7th they reached Heidelberg ; on the 10th Water- val , over a hundred miles south - east of Johannesburg ; by the 13th they had ...
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... African labour . When the young Welsh MP , David Lloyd George , talked of Britain fighting two nations whose population totalled less than that of Flintshire and Denbighshire he forgot the invisible majority : the Africans . In 1899 ...
... African labour . When the young Welsh MP , David Lloyd George , talked of Britain fighting two nations whose population totalled less than that of Flintshire and Denbighshire he forgot the invisible majority : the Africans . In 1899 ...
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Thomas Pakenham. Bryce , James . Impressions of South Africa ( new ed . 1897-1899 ) Buchan , John . Memory Hold the Door ( 1940 ) The African Colony ( 1903 ) Burdett - Coutts , W. The Sick and Wounded in South Africa ( 1900 ) The ...
Thomas Pakenham. Bryce , James . Impressions of South Africa ( new ed . 1897-1899 ) Buchan , John . Memory Hold the Door ( 1940 ) The African Colony ( 1903 ) Burdett - Coutts , W. The Sick and Wounded in South Africa ( 1900 ) The ...
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African Afrikaners Army Corps artillery attack battalions batteries battle Beit Bloemfontein Boers Botha Brigade Britain British Buller burghers Cabinet cabled camp Cape Colony Cape Town cavalry Cecil Rhodes Chamberlain Colenso Colonel column commander Cronje Drift Dundee enemy enemy's field-guns fighting fire Fitzpatrick force Frere garrison gunners Highland Hill horses hundred imperial infantry Jameson Johannesburg Joubert Kekewich khaki Kimberley Kitchener Kitchener's kopjes Kruger laager Ladysmith Lansdowne later Lord Lyttelton Mafeking Magersfontein Majuba Mauser Methuen miles military Milner Modder River morning Natal naval guns night political Pretoria Raid railway Rand regiment reinforcements Rhodes Rhodes's ridge rifle Roberts Roberts's rode seemed sent shells shot siege Smuts soldiers South Africa Spion Kop Steyn strategic surrender Symons tactics Talana Thorneycroft thousand told Transvaal trenches troops Tugela Uitlanders veld victory wagons War Office Warren Wauchope week Wet's White Wolseley wounded wrote yards