Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 4, 2025
Major Altham then read out the General Order, briefly stating that General Buller had failed in "his first attack at Colenso," and we could not be relieved as soon as was expected. All details were refused. We naturally presume the situation is worse than represented. Each of us was allowed to send a brief heliogram, balloting for turn. Then we came away.
Kimberley was never assaulted, nor did the inhabitants often see their enemy in any force. During the same calendar week as Magersfontein, there occurred two other reverses at Stormberg, December 10, and at Colenso, December 15 which made this the black week of the war for the British arms.
If we could gain this hill the town would be at our mercy. The plan of attack was simple in the extreme. The Free Staters would climb one side, the Transvaalers the other, and Louis Botha himself ride over from Colenso with a reserve of three hundred men. Our chief determined to view this fight, and agreed to take me along.
Then the engine was reversed, and we withdrew out of range of the hills beyond Colenso at full speed and some said that the Boers did not fire because they hoped to draw us nearer, and others that there were no Boers within ten miles. On the way back I talked with the volunteer. He was friendly and communicative. 'Durban Light Infantry, he said; 'that's my corps.
One leg and the other foot were carried off, as he lay upon the sandbag parapet watching the effect of our fire. 'There's an end of my cricket, said the gallant sportsman, and he was carried to the rear with a cigar between his clenched teeth. On November 3rd a strong cavalry reconnaissance was pushed down the Colenso road to ascertain the force which the enemy had in that direction.
It was in this dilemma that the British, in consequence of the abandonment of their original concentrative plan of advance through the Free State, and the adoption of two or more lines of operation, found themselves over their whole front; from Colenso on the east, through Sterkstrom and Naauwport, to the Modder River.
They may be left quietly to float away without our being able to solve them, if we bear in mind the acknowledged fact, that there is a human element in the Bible. 'What if many of the numbers given in Exodus should, as Bishop Colenso asserts, be inaccurate? What is to be gained by assertions or denials relative to matters which have for ever passed out of the reach of our verification?
So soon as the Nation grasps the idea that democracy can fulfil its mission only when the electors are resolved to choose leaders by their qualification for the work they have to do, the British Nation will resume the lead among the nations of the world. January 5th, 1900 There has been no substantial, visible change in the military situation since the battle of Colenso on December 15th.
The officer, taking a sergeant with him, went on towards the village on foot. I followed. We soon reached the trenches that had been made by the British troops before they evacuated the place. 'Awful rot giving this place up, said the officer. 'These lines took us a week to dig. From here Colenso lay exposed about two hundred yards away a silent, desolate village.
And now, Mister First Officer Colenso, perhaps you'll explain how he had the impudence to come within two hundred miles of a coast where his name smelt worse than vermin." "He was coming back, sir." "Hey?" "Back to Boston, sir. You see, Cap'n, father wasn't a rich man, but he had saved a trifle. He didn't go back to the service, though told that he might. It preyed on his mind.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking