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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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camp, on December 15th, they thought at first that the great force of guns and infantry deployed in front of the drifts was a false attack and that the real blow would be struck on their left at Hlangwane. This was why they held it THE ATTACK ON HLANGWANE. so strongly, though BuUer had so misjudged the situation that he was not even aware of their presence there in force, and though the occupation of the mountain entered into his plans for the day, it appeared in the orders only as a subsidiary operation. 241 15th its capture might have proved a fairly easy operation, for it had only recently been occupied and the Boers had done little to strengthen their hold upon it. But eight weeks had passed since then, and they had not only elaborately entrenched the hill, but also extended
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NEAR HLANGWANE MOUNTAIN : BOERS CLIMBING A KOFJE. He had now discovered the importance of the position. If he could expel the Boers from it and place his batteries on the summit, he might, under cover of their fire, force the crossing of the river behind the hill and below Colenso. Had Hlangwane been attacked on December their lines well to the left, to prevent the position being outflanked. Eastward of Hlangwane they held the entrenched heights of the hills known as the Green Hill and Mount Cingolo. To its left rear they had guns on the ridge of MonteCristo which commanded Cingolo and the Green THE BOER WAR. Hill, and they had pushed out a force to hold the lower hills to the front and threaten the British right at Chievelej. Bullers plan was to attack the left of this extensive position, and, once he had a footing there, try to clear hill after hill, forcing the Boers back over the river. This would give him possession of good artillery positions with which to cover his advance across the Tugel

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