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advance army artillery attack batteries battle battle-field Bloemfontein Boer Boer forces Boer officers Brigade British Buller burghers camp Cape Colony captured casualties Christian De Wet Colenso Colonel column Commandant Commandant-General Cronje Cronje's defended despatch district drift Dundee east Elandslaagte enemy enemy's engaged England English Field Cornet fight fire foes fought Free Staters French garrison Government ground guns hill Johannesburg Joubert Kaffirs killed and wounded Kimberley Kitchener's Kock kopje Kroonstad Krugersdorp Krupp laager Ladysmith Lord Kitchener Lord Roberts Louis Botha Mafeking Magersfontein Mauser Methuen miles military Modder River Modderspruit morning Natal Orange Free Orange River President Kruger President Steyn Pretoria Prinsloo prisoners railway Rand reenforcements retreat Rey's ridge rifles shot side soldiers South Africa South African Republic Spion Kop Spruit Stormberg surrender Talana tion town Transvaal troops Tugela Uitlanders Vaal veldt victory volunteers wagons Wet's yards
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Page 49 - You will inform the Government of the South African Republic, in reply, that the conditions demanded by the Government of the South African Republic are such as Her Majesty's Government deem it impossible to discuss.
Page 463 - The long trial has proved that the object for which Spain has waged the war cannot be attained. The fire of insurrection may flame or may smolder with varying seasons, but it has not been and it is plain that it cannot be extinguished by present methods.
Page 462 - Cuba and by the addition to the horrors of the strife of a new and inhuman phase happily unprecedented in the modern history of civilized Christian peoples. The policy of devastation and concentration...
Page 10 - Spain — they inherit from them their unconquerable love of freedom and of liberty. Are not these qualities which commend themselves to men of the English race ? Are they not virtues which we are proud to believe form the best characteristics of the English people ? Is it against such a nation that we are to be called upon to exercise the dread arbitrament of arms ? These men settled in the Transvaal in order to escape foreign rule.
Page 53 - ... about the artillery and munitions of war that the Republics were introducing— I ask, How on earth were we to know it? I believe, as a matter of fact— though I do not give this as official— that the guns were generally introduced in boilers and locomotives, and the munitions of war were introduced in pianos. It was not...
Page 10 - They are a homely, industrious, but somewhat rude and uncivilised nation of farmers, living on the produce of the soil. They are animated by a deep and even stern religious sentiment, and they inherit from their ancestors — -the men who won the Independence of Holland from the oppressive rule of Philip II. of Spain — they inherit from them their unconquerable love of freedom and of liberty.
Page 567 - I should be failing in my duty to Her Majesty's Government and to Her Majesty's Army in South Africa if I neglected to use every means in my power to bring such irregular warfare to an early conclusion.
Page 459 - ... national and material annihilation [?] of the entire people, and especially considering the spirit of unbending persistence with which the great majority of our men, women, and children are still possessed, and in which we see with thankful acknowledgment the hand of the Almighty Protector, resolve, that no peace will be made and no peace conditions accepted by which our independence and national existence, or the interests of our Colonial brothers, shall be price paid, and that the war will...
Page 40 - Uitlanders (ie, the miners and working-men of the Rand) had no grievances. I know what I am talking about, for I have lived and worked among them. I have seen English newspapers passed from one to another, and roars of laughter roused by the Times telegrams about these precious grievances.
Page 462 - October 21, 1896, in the Province of Pinar del Rio was thence extended to embrace all of the island to which the power of the Spanish arms was able to reach by occupation or by military operations. The peasantry, including all dwelling in the open agricultural interior, were driven into the garrison towns or isolated places held by the troops.