rietfontein's

Updated: May 26, 2025

Then the battery took to firing shrapnel, which were so well timed that one could see projectiles from the six guns in succession bursting at intervals along Rietfontein's level crest, which must have been raked from end to end with a shower of shrapnel bullets.

Henry H. S. Pearse - Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith