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Identifier: battlesofninetee06forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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strikingdistance, and was ready to co-operate withPlumer in the relief of the town. This column, under the command of ColonelMahon, had been sent off to the relief of Mate-king by General Hunter at the beginning ofMay. On Friday, the 4th, Hunter, leavingPagets brigade at Warrenton, on the Vaal, to of low bushy hills at Rooidam. The enem\-made a very poor stand, and they were drivennorthwards from ridge to ridge. Barton haltingtrom time to time to shell them with hisartillery. This successful advance along tlicright bank of the Vaal made the position whichthe Boers had held for so long at FourteenStreams untenable. On Sunday, the 6th, theyevacuated it, some of them retiring northwardstowards Vr\burg, but the main body retreatingin the direction of Klerksdorp. On Monda\-Hunter, with Bartons brigade and the Yeomanry,occupied Fourteen Streams, and Pagets brigade-began crossing from Warrenton on a pontoonbridge laid by the Royal Engineers, who alsoset to work to repair the railway bridge.
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;2h THK BOKR WAR. M<iuntcil patrols were sent eastwards across theTransvaal border, and found that the Boers hadhalted and entrenched themselves nearChristiana.Hunter remained halted at Fourteen Streamstor ten days, and during this time railway com-munication across the river was restored. Before he crossed the Vaal at Windsorton hehad organised at Kimberley a picked mountedforce for the relief of Mafeking. He selected forthe command of it a brilliant young cavalryofficer who had served with him in the campaignsfor the reconquest of the Soudan. In i8q6,when the advance from Akasha began. CaptainMahon, of the .Hth Hussars, was in command ofa squadron of Egyptian cavalry. He did hardwork scouting and escorting convoys in thedesert. He took part in the action of Firket,and during the long halt before the advance wasresumed he performed a brilliant exploit, makinga forced march with a handful of cavalry andcamelmen, and scaring the Dervish rearguardout of the villages below the Third C

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