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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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ding was reached. Here anumber of Boer stragglers, who had waited■behind to make their submission, laid downtheir arms and_weremadeprisoners. They said way runs in a deep and wide cutting. Therising ground is wooded in places, and broken withrocky bluffs. Here the Boers had some guns inposition, and they had dug some trenches on thehillside. The trenches had been less carefullyconstructed than usual. The brown earth hadbeen thrown up in a breastwork along the frontof them, showing up sharply against the grass,and making a well-defined target for the HorseArtillerj guns that Porter had brought up withhim. Keeping the cavalry and mounted infantryunder cover behind a hill in advance of theheights held by the Boers, Porter shelled theBoer trenches with the twelve guns of J and RBatteries R.H.A. He drove the enemyout of some of their works and silencedtheir guns. Meanwhile Ian Hamilton, with abrigade of mounted infantrj-, was pushing forwardon the east of the railway towards Lindley, and
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314 THE BOER WAR. to the westward of the Hne French, with threecavalry hrigades, was making a wide turningmovement with the object of reaching the rail-way line north of Kroonstad before Bothasarmy could make good its retreat through thetown. Lord Roberts was not anxious to hurrythe Boers away from Boschrand, and Portermade no attempt to occupy the trenches there,and withdrew his guns in the course of the Fridayafternoon. If the Boers would only make astand there, there would be some chance of theirbeing cut off and captured. But Louis Botha was too good a soldier to runany such risks with his small force. He kept hisrearguard in position only long enough to givetime to withdraw his convoy and complete thewrecking of the railway. His whole object wasto delay Robertss advance, for he knew hehad not sufficient force to attempt to do morethan check it for awhile. His best-mountedtroops were pushed out to guard his flanks onthe east and west, and chiefly in the latter direc-tion, for on t

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