The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 191A. Constable, 1900 |
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... Transvaal and the Free State forces . Would these dispositions prove suitable if 45,000 Boers , accompanied by several field batteries of the newest pattern , were to swoop down upon Natal and at the same time harry the frontiers of ...
... Transvaal and the Free State forces . Would these dispositions prove suitable if 45,000 Boers , accompanied by several field batteries of the newest pattern , were to swoop down upon Natal and at the same time harry the frontiers of ...
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... Transvaal , would have been selected , the army corps concentrating either in Cape Colony or Natal ; and the plan of campaign would have been to advance in overwhelming strength on the selected line , leaving a sufficient force on the ...
... Transvaal , would have been selected , the army corps concentrating either in Cape Colony or Natal ; and the plan of campaign would have been to advance in overwhelming strength on the selected line , leaving a sufficient force on the ...
Page 268
... Transvaal is beset with natural obstacles . North of Pietermaritzburg the country is unfavourable for cavalry . Strong positions abound . The passes of Van Reenen and Laing's Nek block the line of march , and the railway is exposed ...
... Transvaal is beset with natural obstacles . North of Pietermaritzburg the country is unfavourable for cavalry . Strong positions abound . The passes of Van Reenen and Laing's Nek block the line of march , and the railway is exposed ...
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... Transvaal is to be preferred to that through the Orange Free State . The temper of the natives , the extent of colonial disaffection , the condi- tion of the enemy's supplies , the amount of water to be found on either line , the ...
... Transvaal is to be preferred to that through the Orange Free State . The temper of the natives , the extent of colonial disaffection , the condi- tion of the enemy's supplies , the amount of water to be found on either line , the ...
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... Transvaal , in better relations between English and Dutch throughout South Africa , and in an increase of strength to the Empire . We dealt six months ago with the diplomatic controversy which , while it lasted , exacerbated rather than ...
... Transvaal , in better relations between English and Dutch throughout South Africa , and in an increase of strength to the Empire . We dealt six months ago with the diplomatic controversy which , while it lasted , exacerbated rather than ...
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Page 287 - Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude...
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