The Transvaal War, 1880-81Lady Bellairs W. Blackwood and sons, 1885 - 491 páginas |
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Página 65
... Nourse's Horse , the Pretoria Rifles , and the Volunteer Artillery . From 150 to 200 men were thus enrolled , a portion of whom , under drill instructors furnished by the garrison , or some few of themselves who had already gone through ...
... Nourse's Horse , the Pretoria Rifles , and the Volunteer Artillery . From 150 to 200 men were thus enrolled , a portion of whom , under drill instructors furnished by the garrison , or some few of themselves who had already gone through ...
Página 107
... Nourse's Horse remained near their horses , which were picketed on the north - west side of the camp ; the Pretoria Rifles encamped on the space between the jail and the convent , part of the grounds of the latter ; the small Transvaal ...
... Nourse's Horse remained near their horses , which were picketed on the north - west side of the camp ; the Pretoria Rifles encamped on the space between the jail and the convent , part of the grounds of the latter ; the small Transvaal ...
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... Horses had been pressed into the service of the mounted bodies , and the whole armed with rifles of various patterns ... Nourse's Horse - the corps . III . CHAP . former consisting of about one hundred THE DEFENCE OF PRETORIA . 109 ...
... Horses had been pressed into the service of the mounted bodies , and the whole armed with rifles of various patterns ... Nourse's Horse - the corps . III . CHAP . former consisting of about one hundred THE DEFENCE OF PRETORIA . 109 ...
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... horses , reduced as time went on , and the ravages of war and disease had had their effect - were most useful corps ... Nourse raised the corps bearing his name ; but falling sick early in the investment , he was succeeded in the command ...
... horses , reduced as time went on , and the ravages of war and disease had had their effect - were most useful corps ... Nourse raised the corps bearing his name ; but falling sick early in the investment , he was succeeded in the command ...
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... Nourse's Horse - 25 men - went on in advance of the main body to the rising ground in front of Struben's Farm ... horses . The enemy then extended in a most orderly manner , some getting cover in a dry sluit , others behind stones . They ...
... Nourse's Horse - 25 men - went on in advance of the main body to the rising ground in front of Struben's Farm ... horses . The enemy then extended in a most orderly manner , some getting cover in a dry sluit , others behind stones . They ...
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94th Regiment action armistice arms arrived artillery Assistant attack Blue-book Boer Commandant Boers camp Captain Sanctuary carried caused CHAP civil civilians Colley's Colonel Bellairs Colonial column Commissariat December defence despatch detachment direction district Dutch effect Elandsfontein endeavour enemy enemy's February fire flag of truce force garrison Government ground guns hill hostilities huts jail January Joubert kopje kraal Kruger laager Laing's Nek Landdrost Lieut Lieut.-Colonel Gildea Lieutenant loss Lydenburg Marabastadt March martial law ment miles military mounted infantry mounted troop mules Natal natives night Nourse's Horse occupied officer commanding Orange Free party patrols Pietermaritzburg position Potchefstroom Pretoria Pretoria Carbineers Pretoria Rifles reached received reinforcements ridge road Royal Engineers Royal Scots Fusiliers Rustenburg scouts sent Sergeant shot side siege Sir Evelyn Wood Sir George Colley skirmish soldiers soon South Africa Standerton taken tion town Transvaal volunteers waggons Wakkerstroom Winsloe wounded yards
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