From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African WarW. Blackwood and sons, 1900 - 180 páginas |
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... assistance - A smiling valley - The Border Mounted Rifles - A rain - storm - A thirty - two miles ' march - How the troops came into Ladysmith . 56 • 66 IX . THE STORY OF NICHOLSON'S NEK . An attenuated vi CONTENTS .
... assistance - A smiling valley - The Border Mounted Rifles - A rain - storm - A thirty - two miles ' march - How the troops came into Ladysmith . 56 • 66 IX . THE STORY OF NICHOLSON'S NEK . An attenuated vi CONTENTS .
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... mile from the station , and about them move men in putties and khaki . Signal flags blink from the rises , pickets with fixed bayonets dot the ridges , mounted men in couples patrol the plain and the dip and the slope.
... mile from the station , and about them move men in putties and khaki . Signal flags blink from the rises , pickets with fixed bayonets dot the ridges , mounted men in couples patrol the plain and the dip and the slope.
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... miles north is the Orange river , and beyond it , maybe by now this side of it , thousands of armed and mounted burghers — and war . I wonder if it is all real ? By the clock I have been travelling something over forty hours in South ...
... miles north is the Orange river , and beyond it , maybe by now this side of it , thousands of armed and mounted burghers — and war . I wonder if it is all real ? By the clock I have been travelling something over forty hours in South ...
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... miles , and for aught I know five hundred miles after that . At the rare stations you see perhaps one corrugated - iron store , perhaps a score of little stone houses with a couple of churches . The land carries little enough stock ...
... miles , and for aught I know five hundred miles after that . At the rare stations you see perhaps one corrugated - iron store , perhaps a score of little stone houses with a couple of churches . The land carries little enough stock ...
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... miles at the far end of them - it is very dangerous . There are at this moment no supports nearer than England . Let the Free Staters bring down two thousand good shots and resolute men to - morrow morning - it is only fifty miles ...
... miles at the far end of them - it is very dangerous . There are at this moment no supports nearer than England . Let the Free Staters bring down two thousand good shots and resolute men to - morrow morning - it is only fifty miles ...
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From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War George Warrington Steevens Visualização integral - 1900 |
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War George Warrington Steevens Visualização integral - 1900 |
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War George Warrington Steevens Visualização integral - 1900 |
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