Battles of the nineteenth century . alloped BOMBARDING CRONJE. out and tried to seize a kopje on the right of thebattery that had come into action. But theloth Hussars started out to race them fromthe hill, got there first, and opened on themwith carbine tire. The Boers wheeled roundand rode back to the cover of the river the subsequent operations the kopje thusseized bv the Hussars in the nick of time wasknown as Robertss Hill. The accurate fire directed by the gunsupon the drift showed Cronje plainly that he struggle with Ficn;hs batteries, and for the restof the afternoon C
Battles of the nineteenth century . alloped BOMBARDING CRONJE. out and tried to seize a kopje on the right of thebattery that had come into action. But theloth Hussars started out to race them fromthe hill, got there first, and opened on themwith carbine tire. The Boers wheeled roundand rode back to the cover of the river the subsequent operations the kopje thusseized bv the Hussars in the nick of time wasknown as Robertss Hill. The accurate fire directed by the gunsupon the drift showed Cronje plainly that he struggle with Ficn;hs batteries, and for the restof the afternoon Cronje endured a continualbombardment without making any attempt toreply to it. Shell after shell from ArtilleryHill fell plump into the laager, says CaptainBoyle. Finally, our second battery was movedto a little distance from Robertss Hill, andopened fire from the southern slope on to a kopjeto which the Boers had retired. All that after-noon at intervals our guns poured shells into thelaager, but no response came, and we spent our. SOME OF CRONJEs OFFICERS CAPTURED AT PAARDEBERG. could not move his convoy across it in columnin broad davlight. Waggons would be wreckedand teams destroyed, and the graded slopes onboth sides of it would be hopelessly he clung doggedly to the idea of eventuallysaving the convoy. He laagered .some of thewaggons in such cover as the broken groundafforded, got some more of them, one at a time,down to the river bed, brought three guns intoaction to cover the movement, and set to workwith pick and spade to entrench the river margin,and to make a new way down to it for thewaggons at a point that was sheltered from thehostile artillery. The Boer guns soon gave up the unequal time watching the Boers, now 3,000 yards away,entrenching themselves in the open and alongthe river bank. Their waggons caught fire andthe ammunition , and as they realisedtheir position more and more, so must theirhearts have sunk. must they havewait
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