From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . ers was 283; the Boers had one man killedand five wounded. Majuba Hill was enough for the British, fighting asthey were in an unjust cause. An armistice was agreed upon, followed bya treaty of peace on March 23d. Large reinforcements had been sent out,which would have given tin- British an army of 20,000 against the 8,000Peace Declared Boers capable of bearing arms; but to light longer in defencewith British of an arbitrary invasion aeainst such brave defenders of theirhomes and their rights, did not appeal
From 1800 to 1900The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements .. . ers was 283; the Boers had one man killedand five wounded. Majuba Hill was enough for the British, fighting asthey were in an unjust cause. An armistice was agreed upon, followed bya treaty of peace on March 23d. Large reinforcements had been sent out,which would have given tin- British an army of 20,000 against the 8,000Peace Declared Boers capable of bearing arms; but to light longer in defencewith British of an arbitrary invasion aeainst such brave defenders of theirhomes and their rights, did not appeal to the conscience ofMr. Gladstone, and he lost no time in bringing the war to an end. By theterms of the treaty the Boers were left free to govern themselves as theywould, they acknowledging the queen as suzerain of their country, withcontrol of its foreign relations. The next important event in the history of the Transvaal was the ex-ploitation of its gold mines. Gold was discovered there soon after the open-1 1 the diamond mines, but not under very promising conditions. It exists. THE BATTLE OF MAJUBA HILL, BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND BOERS, SOUTH AFRICA The greatest disaster ever experienced by the British in Africa was at Majuba Hill, in the South African Republic. In the war of 1880-81 with the Boers, a British force occupied the flat top of this steep elevation, but was driven out with great slaughter The attempt to recapture the hill in the face of the skilled Boer marksmen was simply a climb to death, and *he day ended in a serious defeat for the invaders.
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