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English: 3rd Battalion of Middlesex Regiment manning the trenches before Jonono's Kop, Natal, on April 10th (October 1900? cf. [1] (northeast of Ladysmith)

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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hat a small party of the enemy, under Colonel Villebois de Mareuil, was moving by Boshof towards Jacobsdal [DEATH OF VILLEBOIS DE MAREUIL. 303] and set out with a column composed of a battery of artillery, the Kimberley Light Horse, and four companies of the Imperial Yeomanry, to attack him. Villebois de Mareuil had been with the Boers on the Tugela in December; in January he joined Cronje's headquarters at Magersfontein, and we have seen how he tried in vain to warn him of his danger when Lord Roberts invaded the Free State. The French colonel accompanied Cronje in the retreat to [...] ignorant of the country, they moved along well-known routes where it was impossible to conceal their march. Methuen's column came up with them in the neighbourhood of Boshof, and the handful of volunteers took post on a kopje, Villebois de Mareuil declaring that he would not be taken alive, and calling upon his comrades to fight to the death. They were shelled by Methuen's battery, while the Yeomanry and the Kimberley Light Horse
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3RD BATTALION MIDDLESEX REGIMENT MANNING THE TRENCHES BEFORE JONONOS KOP, APRIL 10TH. Paardeberg, and was one of those who escaped from the laager on the night before the surrender. Finding that his advice was not taken at the Boer headquarters, and that he had little influence among the Dutchmen, he asked and received permission to form a flying column of foreign volunteers and attempt some enterprise against the western railway line. He organised his party at Klerksdorp, and marched by Hoopstad to Boshof. He had only about eighty men with him, all of them European volunteers — Frenchmen, Russians, and Germans. They had a quantity of explosives and tools in a cart, which also carried a reserve of provisions. Being extended to right and left and completely surrounded them. The situation was hopeless, but they fought until Villebois de Mareuil was killed, and then the white flag was raised. None of the little party escaped. Seventeen were killed, eight wounded, and fifty-four t

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