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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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were either better guns or betterworked, and had better ammunition, for theyreached every part of the town except one smallarea near the De Beers mine. This new bom-bardment went on through the 25th, and endedwith a few shells on the morning of the 26th.Then for some days the bombardment was moreirregular. As a whole, it did very little damage,but the result of it was that the townspeople feltless comfortable in their houses, and began towork hard at improvising earthwork sheltersagainst the Boer shells. On Sundays there was usually a truce. Noone can imagine the relief it was when theshelling ceased, writes Dr. Ashe on Sunday,January 28th. It is not altogether a questionof fear, but the knowledge that, wherever jouare, a shell may drop on \ou at any moment,and that you have to do your work all the same,does not much exhilarate jou. To-day (Sunday)I dont think a shot has been fired on eitherside, but there are heaps of rumours as to whatis in store for us to-morrow. JMore guns, bigger
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THE SMALLEST M AN AND THE BIGGEST MAN IN THE IJOER ARMY. 20- THE BOER WAR. puns, mill closer to us, is what most of therumours amount to, but no one will knowwhether there is any truth in them till to-morrow. Nearlv all the town has been busybuikliiifj shell-proof shelters, but we have de-cided not to do so. Our house is prettj solid,and unless they bring ver^- big guns to bearupon us, we are only liable to be reached by theshells that come from the long side of the house,in the direction in which most of the windowsface. If we keep in the bottom storey and in roofed them with anything that came handy,and then either just sandbags or the loose earthout of the hole was put on top. In these youcant stand up, and there is no ventilation at all,so I guess they would be about as deadlj asthe Boer shells ; but lots of people seem tofind comfort in being in them. One woman Iknow fled into hers early on the Wednesdavmorning, and never came ovit till late Fridayafternoon. The expected heavj- b

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