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Updated: June 13, 2025
With a little dash, they could have taken the Boer guns on Bluebank; but of dash there was not even a little. Nov. 15. I wake at 12.25 this morning, apparently dreaming of shell-fire. "Fool," says I to myself, and turn over, when swish-h! pop-p! by the piper, it is shell-fire! Thud thud thud ten or a dozen, I should say, counting the ones that woke me.
Then the Leicester Mounted Infantry came galloping out, and, under heavy rifle fire, gained the point of Star Hill, hoping to head the cattle back. At once all the guns commanding that bit of grassy plain opened on them "Faith," "Hope," and "Charity" from Telegraph Hill, the guns on Surprise Hill, and Thornhill Kopje, and the two guns now on Bluebank Ridge.
In the evening Colonel Stoneman held the first of his Shakespeare reading parties, and again we found how keenly a month of shell-fire intensifies the literary sense. November 30, 1899. Three battalions with cavalry and guns were to have advanced on to the open ground beyond Range Post, and again attack the Boer position on Bluebank, where there are now two guns.
It also commands the beginning of the Maritzburg road, where it passes across the "Long Valley," between Range Post and Bluebank. The doctors and ambulance men who went out after the brief cavalry action on Friday morning report they were fired on while carrying the dead and wounded in the dhoolies. The Boers retaliate with a similar charge against us in Modder River.
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