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Updated: May 22, 2025
The "Fifes" crossing the Vaal captured the town of Christiana in the Transvaal the first act of war on Transvaal soil. After the death of Captain Hodge, Captain R. Purvis took command till wounded at Nooitgedacht, when Lieutenant J. Gilmour succeeded him. In May 1901 the first contingent, after having marched 2575 miles and taken part in 85 engagements, proceeded home.
The bell of the locomotive was everywhere ringing the death-knell of effective water haulage, with such dire results that, in 1880, of the 4468 miles of American freight canal, that had cost $214,000,000, no fewer than 1893 miles had been abandoned, and of the remaining 2575 miles quite a large proportion was not paying expenses.
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