. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . ntry. CAESARS CAMP and WAGON HILL are respectively the eastern andwestern portions of a ridge a few miles south of Ladysmith. Looking fromthese hills a complete perimeter of fourteen miles, which followed MaidensCastle, Highlanders Post, Range Post, Riflemans Post, Kings Post, CoveRedoubt, Observation Hill, Gloucesters Post, Cemetery Hill, Helpmakaar Hill(Devonshire Hill) can be traced. From these eminences, too, a good panoramicsurvey of the town may be taken. Bulwana, Lombards Kop, and Gun Hill,rise grimly on the right, and in the
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . ntry. CAESARS CAMP and WAGON HILL are respectively the eastern andwestern portions of a ridge a few miles south of Ladysmith. Looking fromthese hills a complete perimeter of fourteen miles, which followed MaidensCastle, Highlanders Post, Range Post, Riflemans Post, Kings Post, CoveRedoubt, Observation Hill, Gloucesters Post, Cemetery Hill, Helpmakaar Hill(Devonshire Hill) can be traced. From these eminences, too, a good panoramicsurvey of the town may be taken. Bulwana, Lombards Kop, and Gun Hill,rise grimly on the right, and in the far view Umkolumba Mountain, the Britishheliograph station during the siege, is discerned. On the reverse side of theridge, detached hills and great plains will be noticed. The noted BestersFarm, Spion Kop, and other hills, can also be detected. Wagon Hill was the key to the British position, and the Boers madetwo determined assaults upon it, the first on the 9th November, 1899, and thesecond on the 6th January, 1900: both assaults were, however, Where Col. Diek-Cunynghum fell, iitli 192
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