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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had beendeferred until February, when soldiers andtownsfolk were really on short rations, theresult might have been different. As it was,having failed so disastrously, the burghers didnot renew the attempt. Crowded together in the narrow spaceincluded within the lines of the defence,exposed to a trying climate, living under in-sanitary conditions, and without sufficient foodto maintain their strength, it is no wonderthat both the garrison and the townsfolksuffered severely, during the later weeks of thesiege, from various kinds of illness. Dysenteryand enteric, those two scourges of besiegedarmies, were fearfully prevalent, and manyvaluable lives were lost, not amid the inspiringexcitement of battle, but in the depressingsurroundings of the hospital camp. We cannotclose our record of the siege of Ladysmithwithout referring to one of the youngest of itsvictims, a journalist of more than ordinaryenterprise and ability, whose early death wasfelt as a personal loss by thousands throughout
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262 THK ROF.R WAR. the Kiiglish-speaking world. Mr. G. \V. SteevensIkicI won a high repiitalioii by the work he haddone as a .special edrrespoiidciit in the UnitedSl.Ues, ill Thessal\-, and abo\e all, withKitchener in the Soudan campaign of lSt)8. Heliad sent home stirring descriptions of the firstbattles of the Natal campaign, and the earliers.ages of the siege of Ladysmith. Physically hewas not a strong man, but a certain reserve ofnervous energy had carried him through theliard work of three previous campaigns. Belore)i- left England for South Africa he had toldIns friends that this would be his last experience.IS a war correspondent,I lial when it was overhe would .settle down tojournalism in England. Itproved to be his last cam-paign in a sadder sense.Until December he hadenjoyed fairlygood health,but in the middle of themonth he became weakand ill, although at firstthe deadly nature of hissickness was not recog-nised. On the terribleday when the Boers weredinging themselves inde

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