Battles of the nineteenth century . , and 75th Bat-teries, , , Section, , andNo. 5 Co. ,Sept. Ammunition Column,Sept. Egvpt :— 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, Sept. Malta :— 1st Border Regiment, Sept. 28thFrom India :— 42nd Battery, , Sept. Battery, Sept. Kings Royal Rifles, Sept. Field Hospital, Sept. Battery, , Sept. Devonshire Regiment, Sept. Qth Hussars, Sept. 21st, 22nd, and Gordon Highlanders, Sept. Gloucester Regiment, Sept. Lancers
Battles of the nineteenth century . , and 75th Bat-teries, , , Section, , andNo. 5 Co. ,Sept. Ammunition Column,Sept. Egvpt :— 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, Sept. Malta :— 1st Border Regiment, Sept. 28thFrom India :— 42nd Battery, , Sept. Battery, Sept. Kings Royal Rifles, Sept. Field Hospital, Sept. Battery, , Sept. Devonshire Regiment, Sept. Qth Hussars, Sept. 21st, 22nd, and Gordon Highlanders, Sept. Gloucester Regiment, Sept. Lancers, Sept. Dragoon Guards, Sept. Ammunition Column, Sept. troops, some of which, however, couldnot arrive till far into October, would raise thestrength of the Cape and Natal garrisons toabout 20,000 men. But, even with the localarmed police and volunteer forces, they wouldstill be outnumbered heavily by the levy enmasse which the two republics could rapidlyput into the field. The Hohie Government was. ^1R FOKRST (Plioto: Russell therefore engaged in preparing for the of a complete army corps, and arrangingwith the great shipping companies to take overabout a hundred large steamers as transports. But events moved so fast that war had begunbefore all the reinforcements had arrived, andbefore the army corps had completed itsmobilisation. On September 28th the OrangeFree State had declared that in the event ofhostilities its burghers would fight on the sideof the Transvaal. On October 1st the tworepublics began to collect their forces. Theonly trained troops they possessed were anumber of batteries of artillery and a fewmounted police. But everyman was liable to service,and possessed a Mauser rifle,supplied by the State, abandolier, and a quantity ofcartridges, and almost everyman had a horse, and wasbound to bring with him atleast a weeks supplies forhimself and his mount. Theprocess of mobilising wassimple in the extreme. Theburghers
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