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Updated: June 28, 2025
Meanwhile the right flank was sweeping round towards the main battery in expectation of meeting with some resistance from the gun's crew of "Big Ben of Little Bulwaan." That weapon had, in virtue of similar qualities, succeeded to "Long Tom's" second title, but did not live long to enjoy it.
The first siege-baby An Irish-American deserter A soldierly grumble Boer cunning and Staff-College strategy An ammunition difficulty The tireless cavalry A white flag incident What the Boer Commandant understood The Natal summer Mere sound and fury Boer Sabbatarianism Naval guns at work "Puffing Billy" of Bulwaan Intrepid Boer gunners The barking of "Pom-Poms" Another reconnaissance "Like scattered bands of Red Indians" A futile endeavour A night alarm Recommended for the V.C. A man of straw in khaki The Boer search-light Shelling of the hospital General White protests The first woman hit General Hunter's bravado "Long Tom" knocked out A gymkhana under fire Faith, Hope, and Charity Flash signals from the south A new Creusot gun.
Sir Redvers Buller's second attempt A message from the Queen Last sad farewells Burial of Steevens and Lord Ava At dead of night Relief army north of the Tugela Water difficulties surmised A look in at Bulwaan Spion Kop from afar What the watchers saw The Boers trekking Buller withdraws The "key" thrown away Good-bye to luxuries Precautions against disease "Chevril" The damming of the Klip Horseflesh unabashed One touch of pathos Vague memories of home Sweet music from the south Buller tries again Disillusionment The last pipe of tobacco.
When Bulwaan ceased Telegraph Hill began throwing shells even to the Manchester sangars on Cæsar's Camp, wounding three or four men, and one private of that regiment was killed by a Pom-Pom shot from the ridge beyond Bester's Farm.
The enemy, having heavy artillery of various calibre mounted on Bulwaan, is able to enfilade certain posts held by our infantry pickets on the heels of the horse-shoe, but there are folds among the rocky kopjes where men can lie comparatively screened from shells, which at that distance give timely notice of their coming, as sound travels rather faster than the projectiles do at the end of their flight.
His twin brother, "Puffing Billy" of Bulwaan, was also silenced for a time, but has come back to quite his old form this evening, and threw several shells into the town and camps, where troops assembled to cheer the news of Lord Methuen's victory when it was read out in general orders. December 5. The bombardment has been slack again to-day: all the enemy's big guns silent.
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