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	Battle of Paardeberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Paardeberg (1167 words)

	South African Military History Society - Northern Cape Anglo-Boer War - Centenary Programme 1999-2002
		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.
		Paardeberg (Perdeberg on maps) is on the Modder Rivier 40 kilometres along the Petrusburg / Bloemfontein road.
		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)

	Canadian Forces - Search View - MSN Encarta
		A Canadian regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900 and was soon joined by Canadian cavalry and artillery units.
		In the Third Battle of Arras in April 1917 the Canadians captured the previously impenetrable area surrounding Vimy Ridge in northeastern France, the first significant British victory on the Western Front.
		In the fall of 1917, the Corps came in at the end of a grueling, five-month battle at Ieper, Belgium, and captured the village of Passendale, ending the Third Battle of Ypres.
	encarta.msn.com /text_461511150__1/Canadian_Forces.html (5619 words)

	Paardeberg, Battle of
		The Battle of Paardeberg was the first major British success in the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR since "Black Week," 10-15 December 1899.
		Canada's 1st contingent fought first at Paardeberg Drift on 18 February 1900 where, after hours under fire in the scorching sun, they were ordered to make a suicidal assault.
		The battle for Paardeberg cost Canada 31 men; another 92 were wounded.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006032 (160 words)

	Battle of Paardeberg - tScholars.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was the largest and bloodiest single - as well as last major - battle of the war.
		Kitchener was taken ill the next day and thus Field Marshal Lord Roberts assumed command of the Commonwealth forces.
		The Royal Canadian Regiment suffered nearly 100 casualties and was credited with leading the assault that led to the surrender of the Boer army.
	www.tscholars.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Paardeberg (426 words)

	Boer War Battles 2 Spion Kop Paardeberg (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He lies buried here, among his comrades of the Scottish Rifles, in what was their trench during the battle and now their place of rest.
		A Canadian relic of the Battle of Paardeberg recently found on the battlefield.
		Paardeberg was the first major British victory of the war and an enormous psychological set-back for the Boers.
	www.goldiproductions.com.cob-web.org:8888 /BoerWar_Museum/Boer29_battles2.html (1201 words)

	Name Histories D
		He fought at the battle of Jemappes 1792, under Dumouriez, accompanied Bonaparte in his Egyptian campaign, and was made prisoner by the English on the voyage back and detained for a month at Leghorn.
		It was known as the battle of Cuddalore.
		Of the 17 prizes 2 sank, 6 were wrecked and lost in a storm after the battle, 2 were burned, and 1 was destroyed.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /name_histories_d.htm (8224 words)

	Roll of Honour - Boer War - Photo Gallery - Major General Hector Macdonald (1853-1903)
		Here occured the Battle of Majuba Hill (see below) where, as a Second Lieutenant, he was in command of 20 men on the hill.
		Here he took part in the Battle of Paardeberg (see below) and he was knighted by King Edward VII in 1901 for his service during that war.
		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.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Boer/BoerWarHectorMacdonald.html (3449 words)

	Bacon Battle Prints Paardeberg (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Paardeberg: For two months, since he had taken over command of the British armies in South Africa, in Dec. 1899, Lord Roberts had been preparing to invade the Boer Republics.
		The Bacon print (left) is the only Bacon battle print that recognized a national achievement, in titling it the "Dashing Advance of the Canadians at Paardeberg," in Canada's honour.
		Johan is pointing downstream where the British army is camped during the battle, drinking the utterly contaminated water.
	www.goldiproductions.com.cob-web.org:8888 /BoerWar_Museum/Boer91nn_pastdis_bacon10paar.html (1005 words)

	Edmund Henry Hyndman Allenby Allenby - LoveToKnow 1911
		He went out to South Africa again as a squadron leader in 1899 and took part in the important cavalry operations by which Kimberley was relieved, in the battle of Paardeberg, and in Lord Roberts's advance to Pretoria and into the eastern Transvaal.
		The work of his mounted troops during the retreat from Mons, the subsequent advance to the Aisne, and the first battle of Ypres won great praise, and on a second cavalry division arriving Allenby was appointed commander of the newly constituted Cavalry Corps.
		His army was not called upon to undertake operations on any large scale during 1916, but it shared to some extent in the later stages of the battle of the Somme.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edmund_Henry_Hyndman_Allenby_Allenby (692 words)

	British Light Infantry Regiments
		He was gazetted to the 1st Battalion as 2nd Lieutenant, on the 11th Feb., 1899, and embarking with the 1st battalion for South Africa in Dec., 1899, was present at the relief of Kimberley and the action at Klip Drift.
		He was present at the attack on Cronje's rear-guard at Klip Kraal on the 16th February, and was shot through the head at the battle of Paardeberg on the 18th, when within a few hundred yards of Cronje's laager.
		He was shot dead through the heart on the 18th February at the battle of Paardeberg, and his loss was deeply felt by the whole Regiment.
	www.lightinfantry.org.uk /regiments/obli/boerofficers.htm (1163 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - South African War - Boer War Maps
		Map of the Battle of Paardeberg Showing the Position of the IX Division on 18 February 1900 during the First Engagement
		Map of the Battle of Paardeberg Showing the Position of the XIX Brigade on 20 February 1900
		Map of the Battle of Paardeberg Showing the Position of the IX Division (which included the 2nd Royal Canadian Regiment) on 18 February 1900 during the First Engagement
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/boer/boerwarmaps_e.html (532 words)

	Antique Military Prints Paardeberg
		For the Canadians, the 10 day long Battle of Paardeberg has always been the highlight of the Boer War.
		And the Canadians were also in the front line trenches on the final assault that led to the Boer surrender on Feb. 27, 1900.
		It shows the high point of the battle, the retreat of the British during a disastrous attempt to keep their guns from falling into the hands of the Boers.
	www.goldiproductions.com /BoerWar_Museum/Boer37_battle_prints2.html (574 words)

	Boer War (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At the Battle of Stormberg on December 10, British General Sir William Gatacre, who was in command of 3,000 troops to beat off Boer raids in Cape Colony, tried to recapture a railway junction about 50 miles south of the Orange River.
		But the nadir of the Black Week was the Battle of Colenso on December 15 where 21,000 British troops, under the command of Redvers Buller, attempted to cross the Tugela River to relieve Ladysmith where 8,000 Transvaal Boers, under the command of Louis Botha, were waiting for them.
		At the Battle of Paardeberg on February 18-27, 1900 Lord Roberts finally defeated the Boers and was able to force the surrender of General Piet Cronje where he and 4,000 of his men were captured, which further weakened the Boer fighting force and led the way for the Relief of Ladysmith the following day.
	boer-war.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2557 words)

	Anglo-Boer war flags in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Batte of Majuba was virtually the last battle between British troops and fighters from the South African Republic (aka the Transvaal) in what is called the First Anglo-Boer War (1880-81).
		Even though the Orange Free State is not directly linked to the Battle of Majuba, it is quite usual that at any Boer commemoration the distinctive flags of both former republics as well as flags shared by both in history are flown.
		It is therefore possible that the flag with the diagonal stripe is a variant of a common war flag.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/za^boer.html (903 words)

	The Battle of Paardeberg
		One of the major battles of the war was the Battle of Paardeberg, fought on February 18, 1900.
		And their contribution to the war, and their death in it, is memorialized at the base of the Boer War statue.
		The head of the Boer contingent at the Battle of Paardeberg was General Piet Cronje.
	ruk.ca /article/824 (430 words)

	Paardeberg - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		PAARDEBERG [Paardeberg], historic location, Free State, South Africa.
		In Feb., 1900, during the South African War, Gen. Piet Cronje and his Boer (Afrikaner) troops were forced to surrender to the British army at Paardeberg.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Paardeberg" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-paardebe.html (190 words)

	Conan-Doyle, The Great Boer War: Chapter IV: The Eve of War
		On the 18th was the battle of Paardeberg.
		On March 7th was the action of Poplars Grove with heavy marching; on March 10th the battle of Driefontein.
		The tactics were occasionally faulty, and the battle of Paardeberg was a blot upon the operations; but the strategy of the General and the spirit of the soldier were alike admirable.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /conan-doyle-chapter-20.htm (3047 words)

	Conan-Doyle, The Great Boer War: Chapter IV: The Eve of War
		Putting aside the question of responsibility, what happened on the morning of Sunday, February 18th, was that from every quarter an assault was urged across the level plains, to the north and to the south, upon the lines of desperate and invisible men who lay in the dongas and behind the banks of the river.
		If the miners of Johannesburg had given the impression that the Cornishman is not a fighter, the record of the county regiment in the war has for ever exploded the calumny.
		Yet the engineer who could face evil sights and nauseous smells was repaid by an inspection of the deep narrow trenches in which a rifleman could crouch with the minimum danger from shells, and the caves in which the non-combatants remained in absolute safety.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /conan-doyle-chapter-19.htm (6862 words)

	Boer War - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		While Canadians did not served in the earliest clashes of the war, they did develop a good reputation at Second Battle of Paardeberg and later at Liliefontein, where three Canadians were awarded the Victoria Cross and one the Queen's Scarf.
		It saw action at Paardeberg, Israel's Poort, Thaba Mountain, Doorn Kop, and marched into Pretoria, the enemy capital on 29 May as part of Lord Roberts' conquering army.
		The war passed into a guerilla campaign, but the 2nd Battalion had signed enlistment papers for "six months, or one year if required." The Regiment embarked for home at Cape Town on 7 November 1900, reached England on 29 November, and returned to Canada on 23 December, where the battalion was promptly disbanded.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Boer_War (734 words)

	Military History: The Boer War
		The government sent the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, which arrived in time to fight at the Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900.
		Russell Hubly, a Canadian volunteer in the Boer War, describes his advance from the Canadian trench in the Battle of Paardeburg, 27 February 1900.
		Canadians at the Battle of Paardeberg, February 1900, by Arthur H. Hider.
	www.lermuseum.org /ler/mh/boerwar/index.html (964 words)

	Alfred Atkinson: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sergeant Alfred Atkinson, VC Sergeant Alfred Atkinson, VC During the Battle of Paardeberg, on 18 February 1900, Sergeant Atkinson went out seven times under heavy and close fire to obtain water for the wounded.
		Also on display is the Victoria Cross of Sergeant Alfred Atkinson, which he won for his heroic acts during the Battle including rescuing a wounded officer and bringing water for the parched soldiers on sever journeys to and from the river.
		Lieutenant Colonel Neil McIntosh, Curator of the Green Howards Regimental Museum, says, 'Paardeberg was a major battle of the Boer War, and we are proud to have Atkinson's VC and Cronje's saddle in the Museum.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Atkinson_Alfred_636449571.htm (506 words)

	Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges; Father of the AIF
		He participated in the cavalry sweep to relieve Kimberley that began on 13 February 1900 and the last major battle of the war, the Battle of Paardeberg on 18 February 1900.
		Bridges not only neglected Sellheim's command, starving it of the officers he needed to staff it, he gave him no support whatsoever in turf battles against the British, he used it as a dumping ground for men he disliked.
		Bridges was forced to commit his units piecemeal as they arrived on the beach, in response to one crisis after another.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/ww1/bridges.htm (1786 words)

	Major General John Antill
		In November 1899, Antill was promoted to major and given command of 'A' Squadron of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, a unit specially raised for service in the Boer War.
		Arriving in Cape Town on 6 December 1899, the squadron participated in the cavalry sweep to relieve Kimberley that began on 13 February 1900 and the last major battle of the war, the Battle of Paardeberg on 18 February 1900.
		Only in August was the brigade released to join the Anzac Mounted Division at Romani, too late to be decisive, and nearly too late to join the battle at all.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Generals/antill.html (1513 words)

	Wikinfo \| List of battles 1901-2000
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=List_of_battles_1901-2000 (1747 words)

	The Green Howards, - VCs and GCs Won by the Regiment
		Sergeant Alfred Atkinson, VC During the Battle of Paardeberg, on 18 February 1900, Sergeant Atkinson went out seven times under heavy and close fire to obtain water for the wounded.
		Alfred Atkinson was the youngest of five children of James and Margaret Atkinson born in Arrnley, Leeds, Yorkshire on 6th February 1874.
		He was buried at Gruisbank near Paardeberg on 21st February 1900.
	www.greenhowards.org.uk /html-files/vcgc-alfred-atkinson.htm (508 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - South African War - Battle of Paardeberg
		Field Hospital, Paardeberg, 19 February 1900, the second day of the battle.
		On 18 February 1900, British forces began to besiege a Boer army commanded by General Piet Cronje at Paardeberg Drift on the banks of the Modder River (
		See map showing the position of the XIX Brigade on 18 February 1900).
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/boer/battlepaardeberg_e.html (410 words)

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