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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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,because they meant to rush the trenches in thenight with the bayonet. The guard in thetrenches was thus on the alert, and they firedon anyone they saw in the dark, thinking therush was coming. Thus several men who triedto help the wounded were shot down. Atdawn, the Boers came out of the trenches witha Red Cross flag and removed some of theirmen who had been wounded when thej- rushedforward to meet the attack. This was theopportunity that should have been taken tosend forward a Red Cross party froqi ourown lines and arrange a brief truce for ther(.lief of the wounded. The Boers gave water•lO the British wounded, and might have donemuch more ; but unfortunately some of theBoers began to take the boots off the dead, andthe cry was raised among our soldiers that theywere plundering the dead and wounded, andsome shots were fired at them, although theRed Cross was flying. The Boers at once wenthack to their trenches, and firing began onboth sides. During the day there was a good deal of
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THE ANNIVERSARY OF MAJUBA. zm artillery and rifle firing, but no attempt wasmade to renew the attack on the hills, and mostof Harts brigade was kept sheltered in thebroken ground between the railway and theriver. The Boer artillery tire caused some loss,and Colonel Thorold, of the Royal Engineers,was killed by a bursting shell. Bullers advancehad come to a standstill. He realised that theBoers meant to make a stand, and that his army,attempting to move up the narrow troughbetween the hills and river, fired on from theflank for miles, and with a barrier of stronglyentrenched kopjes in front, was in a verydangerous position. He decided to abandon hisplan and to fall back on a modification ofWarrens original proposal. Considering that nothing was done duringthe Saturday, it was most unfortunate that noattempt was made to succour the wounded anddying on Inniskilling Hill. The) had lain there,-suflfering untold horrors, since Friday afternoon,and they had to lie there till Sunday morning,b

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