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LORD ROBERTS CONFIDENT; Said to be Preparing a Wide-Reaching Advance. BOERS LIKELY TO BE ENMESHED A Commando Is Reported in Basutoland -- Italy Asked to Intervene -- Milner's ...

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Claremont Landscape Garden in Esher steps back in time with Victorian soldier re-enactment

As scenes from the first Boer war in South Africa were re-enacted, Victorian ladies and gentlemen promenaded around Claremont Landscape Garden Claremont Landscape Garden in Esher was the scene of ...
BBC

The Boer Wars

The Boer 'commando' system evolved from the early defence system at the Cape. Each district was divided into three wards or more, with a field cornet for each ward and a commandant taking military ...
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5 minutes with Zirk van den Berg

With Half of One Thing the Namibia-born, South Africa-raised author brings us a love story and a war adventure about a New Zealand soldier fighting for the British. Gideon Lancaster infiltrates a Boer ...
The New York Times

BOER COMMANDO SCATTERED.; Gen. French Captures Twenty-six of Fouche's Men -- The Attack on Col. Du Moulin's Camp.

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