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	Artillery - LoveToKnow 1911
		The battle of Lose Coat Field (1469) was decided almost entirely by Edward IV.'s field guns, while at Blackheath (1497) "some cornets of horse, and bandes of foot, and good store of artillery wheeling about " were sent to " put themselves beyond " the rebel camp (Bacon, Henry VII.).
		At the first battle of Breitenfeld (1631) Gustavus had twelve heavy and forty-two light guns engaged, as against Tilly's heavy 24-pounders, which were naturally far too cumbrous for field work.
		Indeed, the increased range at which battles were now fought, and the ineffectiveness of the projectiles necessarily used by the artillery at these ranges, so far neutralized even rifled guns that artillery generals could speak of " idle cannonades " as the " besetting sin " of some commanders.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Artillery (14955 words)

	Battle of Modder River - The Boer War
		Pakenham cites Pieters as being the battle at which a British commander, surprisingly Buller, developed a modern form of battlefield tactics: heavy artillery bombardments co-ordinated to permit the infantry to advance under their protection.
		These two battles followed the same pattern: the Boers driven from the hill tops they held by heavy artillery bombardment and an infantry attack at the point of the bayonet.
		• The battle is commemorated by the excellent pipe tune “91st at Modder River”, a reference to the involvement of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/modder-river.htm (1665 words)

	Braddock's defeat Battle of Monongahela river
		Both river crossings were expected to be contested.
		After the battle many of the wounded were found to have wounds from British musket balls rather than the smaller calibre French issue.
		There was considerable carnage in the river but the Indians did not continue the pursuit beyond the river.
	www.britishbattles.com /braddock.htm (3402 words)

	Kimberley, South Africa - Places
		The confluence of the Orange and Vaal rivers became an important settlement area for the khoikhoi in their search for new pastures and it is thought that the settlement split into three groups after a major dispute.
		Near the confluence of the Orange River and its main tributary, the Vaal River, Douglas is a thriving, fast-growing town surrounded by a wealth of agricultural and stock farming ventures fed by two of South Africa's greatest rivers.
		Modder River lies south of Kimberley, near the confluence of the Riet and Modder rivers in the vicinity of several monuments commemorating the Anglo-Boer War Battle of Modder River.
	www.bdb.co.za /kimberley/places.htm (3171 words)

	Battle of Paardeberg information - Search.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Battle of Paardeberg was a major battle during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
		It was fought near Paardeberg Drift on the banks of the Modderrivier ("Mud River") in the Orange Free State.
		The battle started on 18 February 1900, when the British forces under command of Lord Horatio Kitchener surrounded the Boer forces, under General Piet Cronje, at Paardeberg.
	search.com.com.cob-web.org:8888 /reference/Battle_of_Paardeberg (296 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- LORD METHUEN AND THE BRITISH ADVANCE TO THE MODDER RIVER
		It was a 'farewell to the 19th Century, Modder River was the Waterloo of the Victorian Age.'(78) This battle clearly demonstrated the use of nineteenth century military tactics against an enemy armed with twentieth century weapons.
		The Modder River battle was another victory for Methuen and the British, but it was also, relative to the other colonial wars of this era, another extremely costly one.
		Battles waged at Amaoful, Tel-el-Kebir, Dargai and elsewhere reinforced the belief that the British soldier was capable of turning the enemy regardless of his position.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol104sm.html (14914 words)

	South African Military History Society - Northern Cape Anglo-Boer War - Centenary Programme 1999-2002
		The key to the battle, a short, steep kopje, was on the Boers' left flank.
		The battle, between the Highland Brigade in their first engagement after Magersfontein (now under General Hector MacDonald) and the Boers (under General Christiaan de Wet), raged close to the Drift and on the summit of the mountain from 5-8 February 1900.
		This was the first battle in which wounded soldiers were evacuated in railway coaches, and the first time since the American Civil War that reinforcements were taken by train to the battlefield.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/boercn13.html (2220 words)

	The South African Knight - Sir Jaap
		After the battle of Kraaipan the commando was involved at the battle of Modder River where General De La Rey introduced new tactics in the way Boer forces were to operate.
		The success at Modder river was such that De La Rey used them to devastating effect a few days later at the Battle of Magersfontein.
		He was to serve with success at the Battles of Nooitgedacht and Vlakfontein becoming an experienced leader in battle who was well respected not only by his own burghers but also by the enemy.
	www.angelfire.com /biz4/bigbrian/sirjaap.html (1939 words)

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		On the Cape side Lord Methuen's advance from Orange River is an example of the greatest determination and energy coupled with caution on the part of the general, and of the most brilliant courage on the part of the troops.
		Next, it was proved-by that battle, in which the Boer force was large enough to make the victory most difficult, and by the arrival after the battle of fresh Boer forces, that Lord Methuen's force was not strong enough for its work.
		I have for years fought his battle by urging that the Government ought to follow the advice of its military adviser, a theory of which the corollary is that the adviser must resign the moment he is overruled.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/1/1/15110/15110-8.txt (21554 words)

	Bacon Battle Prints Omdurman Talana Hill Elandslaagte Belmont Modder River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Battle prints were almost always placed in simple oak or minimal gesso frames.
		Modder River: After the Battle of Belmont, Methuen moved north along the railway (left) towards the Modder River, where five days later, on Nov. 28, 1899, the Battle of Modder River took place and Bacon had print #5.
		Methuen actually expected the Boers to be, not on the river flats at all, but - like before - in the hills, which at Modder River were a few miles beyond.
	www.goldiproductions.com /BoerWar_Museum/Boer91n_pastdis_bacon1-5.html (3480 words)

	BATTLEFIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA
		Spioenkop was the scene of a bloody and futile battle between British and Boer forces during the Siege of Ladysmith.
		The battle on 4 July ended in the final defeat of the Zulu army and the crushing of the Zulu state, marking the end of the old Zulu order.
		Scene of a deadly battle in which 2-4000 Boers under De la Rey and Prinsloo were overcome by a larger force of British troops under Lord Methuen.
	www.classicencounters.com /battlefields.html (797 words)

	Conan-Doyle, The Great Boer War: Chapter IV: The Eve of War
		There are some who think that, had we held on there as we did at the Modder River, the enemy would again have been accommodating enough to make way for us during the night, and the morning would have found the road clear to Kimberley.
		In his comments upon the battle next day Lord Methuen was said to have given offence to the Highland Brigade, and the report was allowed to go uncontradicted until it became generally accepted.
		With conservative generalship the losses of the battles of the future will be much less than those of the past, and as a consequence the battles themselves will last much longer, and it will be the most enduring rather than the most fiery which will win.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /conan-doyle-chapter-09.htm (4464 words)

	Scots Guards (1805) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle that ensued was ferocious, with the British defenders receiving the first attack on the night of the 27 July, an attack that nearly forced the British off the Cerro de Medellin, a hill to the left of the 3rd Foot Guardsandapos; position, but a counter-attack successfully repulsed the French.
		The Battle of Talavera was bloody and ended in victory for the British though at a terrible price, with over 5,000 men being killed or wounded, while their French opponents lost over 7,000 men.
		The Battle of Inkerman was a victory that had been filled with dreadfully brutal hand-to-hand combat, that, at times, resembled the battles of a far more primitive age, and saw over 2,000 British soldiers killed or wounded out of over 8,000 that took part in the battle, with the Russians suffering over 11,000 casualties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots_Guards_(1805) (2961 words)

	this date in history - this month - November
		This battle was fought so near the coast of Brittany, it was said that ten thousand people on the shore had witnessed the disgrace of the white flag (the Bourbon royal flag).
		The first Battle of Savannah GA A far superior British force arrived outside of Savannah in an attempt to take the city for its own and seize control of Georgia.
		One of the battle honours borne by the Grenadier Guards.
	footguards.tripod.com /08HISTORY/08_Date_in_history/08_Date_11.htm (3764 words)

	Boer War 1899 - 1902
		The "Battle" clasps were issued for named actions, although these actions often consisted of several, separate, sometimes major but related actions.
		For example, the Battle at Spion Kop on 24 January 1900 (from which "The Kop" at Liverpool's Anfield Ground is named) does not have its own clasp, but soldiers who took part in this battle would have been entitled to the "Relief of Ladysmith" clasp.
		Another major battle which comes within the qualification of the "Relief of Ladysmith" clasp is the Battle at Colenso, which took place on 15 December 1899.
	www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /boer_war.htm (1947 words)

	screenonline: Troops Passing Over the Modder by Train (1899)
		, it was taken ten days after the Battle of the Modder River on 28 November, in which British troops led by Lieutenant General Lord Methuen repelled a Boer advance, albeit not without heavy casualties on both sides (despite being ultimately victorious, British losses were greater).
		Like many battles in the early stages of the Boer War, Modder River graphically underlined how inadequate British military tactics developed for previous conflicts (such as the Crimean War nearly half a century earlier) were becoming in the face of sophisticated modern weaponry such as that enjoyed by the Boers.
		For all the formal beauty of Benett-Stanford's image, it is unlikely that the men on the train (identified as Seaforth Highlanders) would have been as appreciative.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/789322/index.html (182 words)

	tek, angry at the world since 1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Today is rememberance Sunday and although I personally have never served in the armed forces a lot of older generations in my family did.
		One in particular was Great Grandad who joined up when he was only 15 and fought in quite a few wars and some very famous battles.
		WWI in my book should never ever be forgotten, in my view it was the war that should have ended all wars, sadly it didn't but I digress, it was a "cannon fodder" war where you were told to go over the top or you faced a bullet from your commanding officer.
	tek.org.uk /tags/Boer (182 words)

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		The soldier grimed with the heat and dirt of battle; shells flying round him on every hand; Death stalking unchecked but a few yards away; and then the vision of little children, their chatter striking upon the father's ear in that far-off land, hands even stretched out to receive them.
		While employed by his general as a despatch rider and intermediary with the Boers, and in many other ways in which as "non-combatant" he could be useful to the army, and especially to his own Highlanders, he has given his chief thought and work to their spiritual concerns.
		Death swift and sudden, in the horrid din of battle stript of all its terrors.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/6/4/6/16460/16460-8.txt (20179 words)

	Introduction: Boer War: Heritage Resources Saint John
		February 2000 marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Paardeberg, in which Canadian soldiers participated in the winning of their first battle in the history of Canadian Arms in foreign wars.
		All attempts to avert the desperate conflict have failed and the eyes of the whole world are turned to watch the progress of the fierce struggle.
		This was the issue which diplomacy failed to settle, and which resulted in an appeal to arms and the God of Battles.
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /Heritage/boerwar/Intro.htm (1106 words)

	18 quebec
		By morning his force was deployed for battle on the plain of Quebec.
		was a long hard battle but a vital one at that time, this enabled the allies to move more
		Between tthe two battles the British forces lost approximately 16,700 men.
	www.42regt.abelgratis.co.uk /batterys/18bty_text.html (1385 words)

	Battle of Paardeberg Document
		While Macdonald had been claiming the attention of the Boers on the river, Roberts had withdrawn his main force some forty miles south, moving the troops by rail with such secrecy that even Commanding Officers had no idea where they were going.
		His right wing was required to wheel round straight on to the river, leaving the left and centre battalions to clear the forward enemy positions from the river bed.
		It was February 27th, the anniversary of the disastrous Battle of Majuba, when Cronje's forces, severely shaken by the continual heavy concentration of artillery fire which the gunners had directed on to their laager, at last surrendered.
	pw1.netcom.com /~reincke/paardeberg.html (2431 words)

	ToGOTo - Taking you to the heart of the highlands! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Spanning the last oxbow bend of the Orange River before it mingles with the Atlantic Ocean, an extraordinary primeval, mountainous landscape of rugged proportions generates a sense of timelessness and infinite space.
		Water was a favoured subject because of its abundance, in rivers, lakes and the sea.
		In battle, to move was to invite being shot.
	www.tourismoptions.co.za /contents.html (5414 words)

	Anglo Boer War - Holts Battlefield Tours
		On this tour we look at the two conflicts that took place between the Afrikaners seeking independence from the British and freedom to maintain their unique way of life, and the Imperial Forces supporting the British Empire and the development of the wealth and prosperity of this rich and fertile country.
		The Afrikaners know these battles as the Wars of Independence; to the British they are the First and Second Boer Wars.
		The battles of the relief forces on the Tugela Heights.
	www.holts.co.uk /ht312.html (500 words)

	Langberg - History
		Every evening at about 18:30 the old school bell outside the building is rung to summon the thirsty.
		After the Modder River battle in the Anglo-Boer War, the Boers first occupied the Spytfontein hills before extending the line to include Magersfontein into their defences.
		During the Magersfontein battle their right flank crossed the railway (the present N12) before ending on some hills near Langberg farm.
	home.intekom.com /langberg/langberg_hist.html (433 words)

	The Devil's Disciple eBook
		The episode illustrates the curious perversion of the English sense of honor when the privileges and prestige of the aristocracy are at stake.
		Frank Harris said, after the disastrous battle of Modder River, that the English, having lost America a century ago because they preferred George III, were quite prepared to lose South Africa to-day because they preferred aristocratic commanders to successful ones.
		Horace Walpole, when the parliamentary recess came at a critical period of the War of Independence, said that the Lords could not be expected to lose their pheasant shooting for the sake of America.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3638/55.html (334 words)

	HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon (2000).
		Battle Tactics on the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18 (1994).
		Passingham, Ian, The Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917 (1998).
	www.temple.edu /history/People/urwin/Hist0154Readings.htm (2320 words)

	Anglo Boer War Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Battle of Modder River (Tweeriviere); engagement at Carter's Ridge, (Lazarets Hill), Kimberley, Cape Colony
		Battle of Stormberg; engagement at Vaalkop (Surprise Hill), Ladysmith; attack fort near Mafeking
		Battle of Pietershoogte or Spoorwegkop, Natal; engagement, Vaalkop, Colesberg
	www.anglo-boer.co.za /chrono1.html (186 words)

	Melvill & Moon
		Made at the Melvill and Moon works in deepest, darkest Africa, we are proud to introduce a copy of an original used at the battle of Modder River.
		Crafted from Kiaat an African hardwood, and one hundred percent cotton canvas, a fine example of Laudator Temporis Acti – the romance of an age gone by.
		Enjoy your Roorkhee chair secure and comfortable in the knowledge that many famous men and some fascinating explorers have sat in the exact equivalent in battles and on adventures all around the world.
	www.melvillandmoon.com /web/instructions.html (588 words)

	Amazon.com: "Battle of Blood River": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zulu army of 10,000, killing 3,000 without suffering a casualty in an engagement that came to be known as the Battle of Blood River.
		The years between the Battle of Blood River (1838), and the conventions of Sand River (1852) and Bloemfontein (1854), which gave independence to the Transvaal and the Orange...
		The Boers crushed Dingaan and his Zulu warriors at the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Battle-of-Blood-River (541 words)

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