Identifier: southafricatransv1v2cres (find matches)
Title: South Africa and the Transvaal War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Creswicke, Louis
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902
Publisher: Edinburgh T.C. & E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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need be, to the accompaniment of a score of guns, andround him were telephonic communications with each of his outposts. ;He had also a private signaller placed with telescope on the watchto inform him of outside doings and forewarn the garrison in case ofassault. Wire communications were arranged so that each dischargeof a shell might be reported by an alarum, in order that inhabitants jof the threatened quarter might have time to burrow in places ofsafety. During the daytime the bell of the signaller was activelyemployed, but at night the Boers seldom bombarded the place, andiits inhabitants were free to emerge from their hiding-places andbreathe the fresh air. Fortunately in the matter of food much foresight had been,exercised. With everything against him, Colonel Baden-Powell had!succeeded in making provision for, if necessary, a prolonged stateof siege. At daylight on the 14th, the whole garrison was on the alert.Reports declared the Boers to be advancing on the south. Firing 58
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COLONEL ROBERT S. S. BADEN-POWELL,THE DEFENDER OF MAFEKING. Photo ljy Elliott & Kiy, London. The Siege of Mafeking was at the same time heard from the north, and Lord Charles Caven-dish-Bentinck was reported to be in action. While the firing con-tinued the armoured train was hurriedly got in readiness, and startedwith the object of engaging the enemy. The crew of the leading truck, Firefly, consisted of a detach-ment of the British South African Police and Railway Volunteers,Captain Ashley Williams himself being in command, Mr. Gwaynebeing the driver of the engine, and Mr. A. Moffat acting as stoker.The second truck was in charge of Lieutenant More, an engineer onthe Bechuanaland Railway. No. I truck was armed with a Maxim,and its crew mostly with Lee-Metfords. Truck No. 2, which carriedanother Maxim, rejoiced in the name of Wasp. A third truck,the Gun, carried a Hotchkiss. The crew of the trucks numberedbarely fifteen in each. The train, after passing Lord Charles Ben-tincks squa

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