Battles of the nineteenth century . ord. 34 and 35, ; 33, Royal East Kent ; 36, West :/// Biif/a/ioti :— H. F. 41, Hampshire ; 42, Hertfordshire ; 43 and44, Loyal Suffolk Hussars. 13/. Battalion :— B. E. Spragge, 45, Dublin ; 46 and 54, Belfast ; 47, Duke of Cambridges Battalim :— A. M. Brook- lield, 53, Royal East Kent ; 55. Northumberland ; 62, ; 60, 15/// Battalion :— S. Sandwith. 56, 57, and 58, Buckinghamshire ; 50, Battalion .-— H. M. Ridl
Battles of the nineteenth century . ord. 34 and 35, ; 33, Royal East Kent ; 36, West :/// Biif/a/ioti :— H. F. 41, Hampshire ; 42, Hertfordshire ; 43 and44, Loyal Suffolk Hussars. 13/. Battalion :— B. E. Spragge, 45, Dublin ; 46 and 54, Belfast ; 47, Duke of Cambridges Battalim :— A. M. Brook- lield, 53, Royal East Kent ; 55. Northumberland ; 62, ; 60, 15/// Battalion :— S. Sandwith. 56, 57, and 58, Buckinghamshire ; 50, Battalion .-— H. M. Ridley. 50, Hampshire ; 63, Wiltshire ; 65, Leicester ; 66, Yorkshire.\-th Battalion :— R. St. L. Moore. 60, Northern Irish (Belfast) ; 61 and 74, Southern Irish (Dublin).iSr/i Battalion :—Colonel R. K. Parkes. 67, 7c, 71, and 75, The Sharpshooters. in/// Battalion:—Colonel H. Paget, 51, 52, 68, and 73, Pagets Battalion :— R. B. Colvin. 72, 76, 78, and 79, The D. M. {rholo: BoHrnc &• Shcpiienf, Calcutta.) 293 CHAPTER XXXIII. DE WET S DOKP AND WEPENER. / W S we have seen, Lord Robertss firstAmJ efforts, on learning of the Boer raid1 _A. into the south-east of the Free State,•^ were directed towards making his hne of communications perfectly secure. Thearrival of Rundles division increased the forcethat was guarding the line south of Bloem-fontein to about 20,000 men. In and aroundBloemfontein he had Frenchscavalry, Ian Hamiltonsmounted infantry, and fourinfantry divisions—viz. the6th (Kelly-Kenny), the 7th(Tucker), the qth (Colvile),and the nth (Pole-Carew).Instead of profiting by theirfirst successes to attempt tocut the railway, the Boershad divided their forces, andwere employing a large partof them in carrying on a re-gular siege of Dalgetys posi-tion near Wepener. Therewas another body of thecnemv, under De Wet, atDe Wets Dorp, which wasvaguely estimated at men, t
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