Good-bye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer WarTaking his title from a British song that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but -- as the old century passed into the new -- at Victorian prestige, assumptions, and complacency. |
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Page 248
... fighting along the river . Altogether his casualties since he first set out to relieve Ladysmith totalled more than the entire strength of the Boer force opposing him . But Joubert had been right in fearing the man's persistence , for ...
... fighting along the river . Altogether his casualties since he first set out to relieve Ladysmith totalled more than the entire strength of the Boer force opposing him . But Joubert had been right in fearing the man's persistence , for ...
Page 390
... fighting force had already dodged back to the wasteland in French's wake . They dug up supplies hid- den before the flight , and now rested in anticipation of fighting anew . At the same time the rear guard commandos and the fugitives ...
... fighting force had already dodged back to the wasteland in French's wake . They dug up supplies hid- den before the flight , and now rested in anticipation of fighting anew . At the same time the rear guard commandos and the fugitives ...
Page 414
... fighting Boers , however , slipped between the advancing columns by night . Smuts himself darted among them in a desperate ride that involved four running fights before he ar- rived near the Orange in the south - east O.F.S. , six weeks ...
... fighting Boers , however , slipped between the advancing columns by night . Smuts himself darted among them in a desperate ride that involved four running fights before he ar- rived near the Orange in the south - east O.F.S. , six weeks ...
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advance ammunition army arrived artillery attack Baden-Powell battle Black Week blockhouse Bloemfontein Boers British brought Buller burghers called camp Cape Town captured cavalry Chamberlain Christian de Wet Colenso Colesburg colonial column command commandos convoy Cronje Cronje's defence Delagoa Bay eastern Transvaal Elandslaagte enemy England farm fighting fire flank force Free Staters French front garrison Gatacre Government guerilla guns Hamilton hills horses infantry Johannesburg Joubert Kimberley Kitchener Kitchener's Klerksdorp kopjes Kroonstad laager Ladysmith leaders Lord Louis Botha Lydenburg Mafeking Magersfontein Methuen miles military Milner Modder move Natal Native night officers Orange Paul Kruger peace position President Steyn Pretoria Raid railway reached reinforcements Reitz Rhodes rifles river Roberts Roberts's rode round Schalk Burger scouts sent side siege Smuts soldiers South Africa Spion Kop strength summit supplies surrender tion troops Tugela Uitlanders Vaal veld Victorian Viljoen wagons western Wet's White wounded