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Title: Reports on military operations in South Africa and China
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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umn to attack either from Abrahams Kraal or Modder River; therefore a rear guard of two regiments and a field battery was left to watch these positions, while the remainder of the division pushed forward. In this advance was encountered a treble line of kopjes, the first little more than a slight rise in the ground, but gradually rising to a higher ridge close to Baberspan. The enemy divining the purpose of this march, and with his usual mobility, anticipating the slow-moving columns of British infantry and field artillery in the occupation of these kopjes, established himself strongly across their path, leaving only two guns and a small escort on the southern slope of the Abrahams Kraal kopjes. The Welsh regiment had to advance in the center, with the Yorkshires and Essex regiments on the right and left respectively. Two regiments, the Buffs and Gloucestershires, were held in reserve with 1 wo field batteries behind the center. With the assistance of a few rounds of artillery, the first line
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OPERATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. 45 of kopjes was carried by the Welsh regiment with little opposition. From this point, however, it was evident that a serious engagement was at hand, a heavy rifle fire showing the enemy to be in strength, while their guns shelled with great accuracy the infantry and wagon train; few of their shells, however, bursting. The infantry pushed slowly forward, half of the Welsh regiment established itself firmly on the slopes of a small kopje jutting out from the center of the enemy's second position; the remainder of the regiment, supported by the Essex regiment, held a position to the left, while the Yorkshires occupied a small kopje to the right and rear. The infantry now came under a heavy cross fire, the enemy holding positions thrown back to the right and left from the center kopje; their four field guns and a Maxim-Norden felt firing with precision. The Buffs were ordered up to support the half regiment of the Welsh on the center kopje; the Essex reenforced the rem

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