The Anglo-Boer Wars, 1815-1902 |
Contents
Chronology of Events preceding and between the Boer Wars | 7 |
The Irreconcilables 18151880 | 8 |
Unfit for a Corporals Guard JanuaryFebruary 1881 | 19 |
Copyright | |
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9th Lancers advance Afrikaners Army artillery attack Australians battalions batteries began Bloemfontein Boer position Boers Botha Brigade British Buller burghers camp Cape Colony captured casualties cavalry centre Colenso Colley Colley's Colonel column command companies Corps cover Cronje Cronje's crossing defenders deployed Division Drift Durban east enemy February fight fire flank force Free Staters French Fusiliers garrison ground Guards guns halted Hamilton Hart's Highlanders Hill Hlangwane horses infantry Irish Johannesburg Joubert killed Kimberley Kitchener Kitchener's kopjes Kruger laager Ladysmith Laing's Nek Lancers Lydenburg Lyttleton Mafeking Magersfontein Majuba Methuen miles Milner Modder River Mount Prospect Mounted Rifles Natal north bank north-east numbers officers Orange ordered Paardeberg Potchefstroom Pretoria raids railway regiment Regular reinforcements Republics riflemen Roberts rode sent Smuts South Africa south-east Spion Kop Standerton Steyn surrender Transvaal Tugela Uitlanders Vaal veldt volunteers wagons Warren Western Transvaal Wet's White wounded yards Yeomanry Zulu