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Page 224
... Colenso , were ' forlorn hopes ' . In the case of the latter , ' Colenso was in front of me . I could attack that and control the result . But Potgieters ... I could not pretend I could control that . I might easily have lost my whole ...
... Colenso , were ' forlorn hopes ' . In the case of the latter , ' Colenso was in front of me . I could attack that and control the result . But Potgieters ... I could not pretend I could control that . I might easily have lost my whole ...
Page 241
... Colenso . ' I'm afraid Long's guns have got into a terrible mess . I doubt whether we shall be able to attack Colenso today . ' This was the gist of what Buller told Hildyard . It was eight o'clock , and only one of the four infantry ...
... Colenso . ' I'm afraid Long's guns have got into a terrible mess . I doubt whether we shall be able to attack Colenso today . ' This was the gist of what Buller told Hildyard . It was eight o'clock , and only one of the four infantry ...
Page 367
... Colenso village unopposed , and next day Thorneycroft's Uitlanders splashed across the Tugela and occupied the kopjes at Fort Wylie . That evening , the station at Colenso was puf- fing with trains again.43 It was nine weeks since the ...
... Colenso village unopposed , and next day Thorneycroft's Uitlanders splashed across the Tugela and occupied the kopjes at Fort Wylie . That evening , the station at Colenso was puf- fing with trains again.43 It was nine weeks since 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