Identifier: battlesofninetee06forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ll-directed fire ot^bursting shrapnel shells on thelong summit of the ridge. By this time the storm hadburst again over the battle-field. The lightning flashed brightly and swiftly,gleam after gleam, under the leaden sky, andthe roar of the thunder-peals seemed to drownthe cannonade. There was a deluge of blind-ing rain that seemed to wrap the ridge in adense haze, and made the aim of gunner andrifleman uncertain. Everyone was drenched to-the skin. And now at last the moment was drawingnear for the final dash at the crest. Away to the right the Manchesters and the Gordonswere climbing swiftly among the boulders thatstrewed the shoulder of the ridge. ColonelChisholme had dismounted a squadron of hisLight Horse, and had brought them up to sup-port the flank attack. The Boers had markedthe encircling attack, and met it with showersof rifle bullets at one point where the Gordonshad to narrow their front to pass betweentwo small kopjes that rose from the hill. Here DER KOCK.Eliiitiisiaagte.
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26 THE BOKR WAR. the.loss ul liic .uKaiicliig attack was heavv,some tlfty men falling killed or wounded amongthe boulders. There was further loss in passingthe fences ii, barbed wire that ran across theridge. As the ilank attack gained the shoulder.ol theridge, the word wasgiven for the Devous to goforward again. General French had galloped to the front, and, dismountingy led the advance onfoot. All the companies were now in line, andthe men strode up the slope with a swingingpace, and as they gained the upper part of the.hillside their fire crossed that- of the flank attack,,driving the Boers from the(level space on top.At one end of the ridgerose a high-pointed kopjei This was the final citadel of the defence. Its rugged side,u ma.ss of granite boulders,bristled with rifles, and,though the shrapnel of ourartillery, passing over the in-Iantry, was bursting fairlyiimong the boulders, the menwho still heltl on to the kopjecontinued to the last to fire;it the attacking regiments.In front

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