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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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a desperateattempt to storm it. Through a shower ofbullets fired at close quarters they dashed up tothe loopholes and fired into them with rifle and.revolver. Some were shot dead at the \er\- A COSTLY ENGAGEMENT. muzzles of the Boer rifles. A few scrambled upoil to the roof in the hope of findhig someentrance there, but the)- were fired on throughventilators in the corrugated iron. One ofthem, a sergeant of the Protectorate Regiment,had four bullets through his jacket, but escapedunhurt. It was soon realised that the attempt uponthe fort was hopeless, and orders were given to fifty-one officers and men, or just half the forcethat was closely engaged. Lieutenant Paton andSergeant-Major Paget had been killed whilefiring their revolvers into the loopholes. CaptainSandford had been hit by two bullets just as histroop reached the work. His last words were acall to his men to press on. Only four of histroop came out of the action unwounded. Everyone had behaved with the utmost intrepidity-.
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.MAFEKIXG : NATIVES DIGGING A TRENCH.(Photo: Ri:z: 11. H. Wn/ces, Ma/ekitig.) retire. The men fell back as steadily as if theywere at drill, so that at first those who watchedfrom the northern outworks of Mafeking couldhardly realise that they had suffered a defeatwith exceptionally heavy loss. About a hundredofficers and men had been engaged in the actualattempt to storm the fort. In the few minutesduring which the fighting lasted they had lostthree officers (Captains Vernon and Sandford andLieutenant Paton) and twenty-one men killed,and an officer (Captain Fitzclarence) and twenty-two men wounded, and four prisoners, a total ofIt When the ambulances went out under a flag oftruce to bring in the wounded, the Boers spokeenthusiastically of the bravery of their adver-saries. They said that they had never seengreater courage displayed in battle. There wasa kind of truce for the rest of the day that hadbegun so disastrously for the garrison. TheProtectorate Regiment, though they had fail

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