Battles of the nineteenth century . ting was lessthan a hinuhcil killed and wounded. On the Jnd Ian Hamilton madewith his -Lccuul brigade and continued bismarch towards Jacobsrust. General Colvilefollowed him in support with the HighlandBrigade and the naval guns. On the same day Lord Roberts, with the maincoknim, advanced from Karree Siding againstDelareys position at Brandfort. Between The start was made- at daybreak. One of thecorrespondents with the army gives a strikingword picture of the start on the march north-wards. • It is a memorable sight, he says, towitness the on-moving of a grea
Battles of the nineteenth century . ting was lessthan a hinuhcil killed and wounded. On the Jnd Ian Hamilton madewith his -Lccuul brigade and continued bismarch towards Jacobsrust. General Colvilefollowed him in support with the HighlandBrigade and the naval guns. On the same day Lord Roberts, with the maincoknim, advanced from Karree Siding againstDelareys position at Brandfort. Between The start was made- at daybreak. One of thecorrespondents with the army gives a strikingword picture of the start on the march north-wards. • It is a memorable sight, he says, towitness the on-moving of a great army in the grc\-light of a dawning day. Wherever the eye tmnsI junction it falls upon animated groups busy making readyfor the march. Camp iires are smoulderingdown, cooking-pots are being packed in longrows, rugs and coats are being rolled into stoutbundles, rifles are being overhauled, men aredonning their kits, horses are being harnessed,and the huge trek waggons piled with theheterogeneous baggage of ten tliousand fighting. r HOUSE, FKEh. b I Al E. Karree Siding and the little town the groundwas absolutely open, and at Brandfort itselfthere was no position suited to Boer was, indeed, a small group of kopjes, butboth flanks were open veldt round which theBritish nu)unted ircops could ride freely. Theplace had been held by the Boers for sevenweeks merelj as an outpost from Which towatch the invading army at Bloemfontein. IMie troops bivouacked on the veldt thatnight, and on the 3rd they cleared the Boersout of Brandfort after a brief action. Tucker,with the 7th Division, formed the right. Oneof his brigades (the 15th, under Wavell) marchedalong the railway directly upon Brandfort ; theother (the I4ih, under Maxwell), with a body ofmounted infantry, moved to the east of it, so asto threaten the enemys left flank. West of therailway marched Huttons mounted infantryand Pole-Carew with the nth Division, in-ckKling the Guards Brigade. If the
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