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Identifier: battlesofninetee06forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s secured, theBoers began to bombard it heavily, from SpionKop and Brakfontein to the west and north, andfrom the high wooded ridge of Doom Kloof tcthe eastward. The disagreeable discovery wasmade that the crest of the captured ridge wasso narrow that it would be difficult to establishour batteries upon it, and there was an un-pleasant suspicion that the Boers had abandonedit so easily because they did not attach muchimportance to its possession. General Buller,who was near the pontoon bridge during thewhole afternoon, sent across Hildyards brigadeto reinforce Lyttelton. It was too late to pressthe advance further to the northward, even ifthe converging fire of the Boer guns would havepermitted such a movement. The men set towork to entrench the ground, and shortly beforesunset the Durhams, the Scottish Rifles, and theKings Royal Rifles repulsed an attempt madeby the enemy on the back of the ridge. During the night grass and bush fires wereburning on the east side of the ridge, and by
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iqo THE BOER WAR. their light the Boers occasionally shelled thebivouac on the hill with pom-poms. As thesun rose on the Tuesday morning, a heavy gun—a q6-pounder Creusot—began to shell VaalKrantz. It was a surprise to find that theenemy had so quickly succeeded in draggingthis huge gun to the summit of the rocky kopje.Five otlicr guns were at work from Spion Kopand Brakfonlein. The troops who held VaalKrantz thus found themselves in the middle ofa semicircle of artillery fire. It was found to beimpossible to obtain sheltered positions for ourfield artillery on Vaal Krantz, but efforts weremade to silence the Boer artillery with theheavy guns on Zwart Kop and Mount Alice.The heaviest fire was directed against DoomKloof in the hope of putting the big Creusot outof action. Sometimes it would be silent for awhile, and it was hoped that it was done for.But then it would appear again among thebushes, drop a big shell on Vaal Krantz, andsuddenly vanish again into cover. Our gunnersthoug

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