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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kafter them, were left upon the summit. It was not until sunrise on the morning ofThursday, the 25th, that General Buller learnedthat the position had been abandoned during thenight. He was early on foot, and when the sunrose was mounting in order to ride with his staffto Warrens position, where he hoped to see theoperations completed for the clearing of the hillsthat barred the way to Ladysmith. As theresult of the general disorganisation and con-fusion that prevailed, no message had been sentto him during the night, and he only realisedthat Spion Kop was lost when he and his officers,looking at the summit through their field-glasses,saw that it was crowded with Boers, some ofwhom were collecting Lee-Metfords lost duringthe fight, while a few of our khaki-clad men weremoving about among them and carrying ofT thewounded on stretchers. Some desultory shotshad been exchanged between Warrens out-posts and the Boers in his front on the BlackMountain, but, though there was no formal truce,
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I82 THE BOER ^^^\R. tlii-; firing soon ceascJ, for Iwlh sides wereanxious to collect and remove their wounded. Buiicr rode by the bridge at Trichardts Driftto Warrens headquarlers, and tiiere learnedthe details of what had happened, and at oncedecided that nothing more could be done, andordered a general retirement across the river. Itwas fortunate ior him that the enemy were notin an aggressive mood, for they could easily havebrought the drifts and bridges under artillery firefrom the ground they had won. Louis Bothahad ridden to the top of Spion Kop, and at firstseemed inclined to keep all the wounded men asprisoners, saying that the British had done so inthe cise of the wounded burghers who fell intotheir hands after Dundonalds skirmish at ActonHomes. He yielded the point after a discussionwith Father Reginald Collins, one of theCatholic chaplains, whose name is well known inthe army in connection with his heroic conductat the surprise of McNeills zareba in the EasternSoudan. Fathe

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