mud-greased

Updated: July 5, 2026

On Tuesday it became certainty. At four in the dim morning guns began to roll and rattle through the mud-greased streets of Ladysmith. By six the whole northern road was jammed tight with bearer company, field hospital, ammunition column, supply column all the stiff, unwieldy, crawling tail of an army.

G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens - From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War