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Page 356
... Kitchener and Kelly - Kenny was the matter of how to defend the kopje immediately south of the Modder - ' Kitchener's Kopje ' . It was to this vital kopje , stripped of troops by Kitchener's own orders , that De Wet , with an uncanny ...
... Kitchener and Kelly - Kenny was the matter of how to defend the kopje immediately south of the Modder - ' Kitchener's Kopje ' . It was to this vital kopje , stripped of troops by Kitchener's own orders , that De Wet , with an uncanny ...
Page 590
... Kitchener's staff travelled in one called Her Majesty's Train Cobra , commanded by an ' admiral ' . ) 30 Kitchener had come to Klerksdorp to see for himself what had gone wrong . The situation was admittedly intractable . Intelligence ...
... Kitchener's staff travelled in one called Her Majesty's Train Cobra , commanded by an ' admiral ' . ) 30 Kitchener had come to Klerksdorp to see for himself what had gone wrong . The situation was admittedly intractable . Intelligence ...
Page 604
... Kitchener and Milner signed last . It was all over in five min- utes ; the republics finally dead and buried . There was an embarrassed silence , broken by Kitchener's well - meant ' We are good friends now.'101 Kitchener's new friends ...
... Kitchener and Milner signed last . It was all over in five min- utes ; the republics finally dead and buried . There was an embarrassed silence , broken by Kitchener's well - meant ' We are good friends now.'101 Kitchener's new friends ...
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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