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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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the message to thefarms farther from the centre. In the next fewhours the men would come riding in, and mean-while he would have commandeered or requisi-tioned horses, waggons, and stores to supply his commando or column. Women generally camein the waggons to help with the camp cooking.The commandoes either marched to the postassigned to them, or made their way to a rail-way station, whence they could reach the ■laagers by train. In the towns the men werecalled out and sent to the front by train, withhorses and transport locally requisitioned. A letter from a Dutch resident in Johannes-burg gives a striking picture of this musteringin arms of the manhood of a whole nation.Whatever may have been the rights or wrongsof the quarrel, it is evident that the burghersof the republics threw themselves heart andsoul into what they regarded as a patrioticstruggle for the existence of their country. On Wednesday, says the writer, Mauser iEU WALKER.&* Sons, Soul/tstra.) o w> a o z 3<
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D >QH Bi TIIF. BOER WAR. rifles were distributed over the wliole coun-try to the burghers and to those Out-landers who voluntarily enrolled themselves,upon which a general commanding (callingup) followed. There was a tremendous panic inthe town, for it is not so very tranquillising to-,ee every other man with a rifle on his shoulder.All large shops were subsequently closed andlailed up with iron and wood. The horses,jsses, and mules were taken from the carriagesin the street to be used by the troops. OnFriday, only from here, six trains with troopsleft for Volk^^rust. I do not think that there isanother country in the whole world where an\-thing of the kind is possible. In twenty-fourhours the burghers armed, called up, and trans-ported ! My landlord D. has left all in hishouse as it was, only asking me to look a bitafter his things, and has left also. It was a veryinteresting sight at the station, and I haveadmired the Afrikander wives and girls for theiradmirable attitude. No wee

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