This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH AFTER the defeat of the Boers at the battle of Pieter's Hill, on February 27th, or Majuba day, there were two things left for them to do. They could fall back across a great plain which stretched from Pieter's Hill to Bulwana Mountain, and there make their last ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH AFTER the defeat of the Boers at the battle of Pieter's Hill, on February 27th, or Majuba day, there were two things left for them to do. They could fall back across a great plain which stretched from Pieter's Hill to Bulwana Mountain, and there make their last stand against Buller and the Ladysmith relief column, or they could abandon the siege of Ladysmith and slip away after having held Buller at bay for three months. Bulwana Mountain is shaped like a brick and set on the side, blocking the valley in which Ladysmith lies. The railroad track slips around one end of the brick, and the Dundee trail around the other. It was on this mountain that the Boers had placed their famous gun, Long Tom, with which they began the bombardment of Ladysmith, and with which up to the day before Ladysmith was relieved, they had thrown 3,000 shells into that miserable town. If the Boers on retreating from Pieter's Hill had fortified this mountain with the purpose of holding off Buller for a still longer time, they would have been under a fire from General White's artillery in the town behind them and from Buller's naval guns in front. Their position would not have been unlike that of Humpty Dumpty on the wall, so they wisely adopted the only alternative and slipped away. This was on Tuesday night, while the British were hurrying up artillery to hold the hills they had taken that afternoon. By ten o'clock the following morning from the top of Pieter's Hill you could still see the Boers moving off along the Dundee road. It was an easy matter to follow them, for the dust hung above the trail in a yellow cloud, like mist over a swamp. There were two opinions as to whether they were halting at Bulwana or passing it, on their...
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1903, Charles Scribner's Sons
Hardcover
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Publisher:
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published:
1903
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16947489056
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Book. Octavo; G Hardcover; Sunned Red spine with Black text; Boards shaken, some edgewear, some shelfwear, sunning to spine, fraying along spine edges, rubbing to corners; Textblock has light age toning, writing in pen on front endpaper; 236 pp. 1349348. FP New Rockville Stock.
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VG. First edition. Hardcover bound in red cloth with flag decorations on t he front cover. Black lettering on the front cover and spine. Very Goo d condition. Slight spine lean. Rubs to the corners. Frays to the uppe r spine tips. Gift inscription inked on the front fly leaf. Dusting to the edges of the upper page block. No dust jacket.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. An important eyewitness account of the Boer War by the ace war reporter and popular novelist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916). This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. Illustrated with photographs. 237 pages with four pages adverts in the rear; clean and very fresh textblock; no foxing. Bright red decorative cloth binding with black lettering. Blindstamped on the front cover with the flags of both belligerents. Extremely faint water stain on the front cover and some chipping of the white filling of the Boer flag; else a Fine copy. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. The best copy Quercus has seen. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
