94-pound

Updated: July 7, 2025

Intelligence was also to hand of the Boers bringing up one of the Pretoria siege guns, capable of firing a 94-pound shell. This was to be dragged across the Transvaal at a snail's pace by a team of twenty oxen, so secure were they against any interruption from the South. Against these depressing items, he gave intelligence of an incident that had greatly alarmed the Boers.

Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson - South African Memories : Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time

Great credit must also be given to A and B companies of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, who were actually the first over the Boer position. The cessation of the artillery fire was admirably timed. It was sustained up to the last possible instant. 'As it was, said the captain of the leading company, 'a 94-pound shell burst about thirty yards in front of the right of our lot.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War