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maps, notes, biblio., index ... But opening rounds of the war were disastrous for the British. The Boers were not a regularly trained or organized army. Ignorant of “proper” tactics but armed with ...
LONDON, Dec. 11. -- The Pretoria reports of renewed fighting at Modder River originated from the fact that the British with a team of thirty-two oxen hauled a naval gun to the top of a high ridge ...
The war will decide whether the British or Dutch will take the supremacy in South Africa." Professor Macvane believes that the Boers are utterly in the wrong, that they have broken every agreement ...