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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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. At last the Dutchmen fled. One, a huge fellow in a brown jersey, tarried to spring on the parapet and empty his magazine once more into the approaching ranks; while he did so, a 50-lb. lyddite shell burst, as it seemed, in the midst of him, and the last defender of Inniskilling Hill vanished. The three hills were taken, and General Buller, at a comparatively small cost, had won a great victory. The firing went on in a desultory fashion till after dark, for from various points of the north and west the Boer guns shelled the captured positions, and their riflemen crept up the hollows of the ground, and here and there a crackle of musketry broke out suddenly, and then died away in dropping shots. Buller had at first thought of sending the cavalry forward to pursue the retreating Boers, but, finding them still aggressive, he gave up the idea and cancelled his orders. It was expected that there would be yet another general action before Ladysmith was, relieved; but the battle of Pieters Hill was the
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254 THE BOER WAR. last stand the Boers made to cover the siege. It was a great day of victory for the British arms. After the battle ended, Buller was enabled to inform the troops that Cronje had surrendered to Lord Roberts that same morning. Majuba Day was henceforth to be the day of Paardeberg and Pieters Hill. A double victory had atoned for the defeat of long ago. The advance to Pieters Hill had cost more than a fortnight of marching and fighting, during which there was not a day on which rifles and cannon were silent. Once more Ladysmith had listened eagerly to the sounds of the fight. This time they knew that Buller was making progress, though after the bitter disappointment of Spion Kop they hesitated to the last to count upon his final success. Mr. Pearse's diary of the siege enables one to follow from day to day the impressions of the garrison during this last period of anxious waiting for sorely needed relief. On Saturday, February 17th, he says, the artillery fire sounded far off on the othe

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