The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 192A. Constable, 1900 |
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... Cape Boers will not break out into fierce flames and that England will not then have to subdue the Cape Colony as well as the Free State ? and for all that certainly a year is not sufficient . In the south , at Dordrecht and Colesberg ...
... Cape Boers will not break out into fierce flames and that England will not then have to subdue the Cape Colony as well as the Free State ? and for all that certainly a year is not sufficient . In the south , at Dordrecht and Colesberg ...
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... colonies to take a share in the cost of the general defence of the Empire , commencing with the maintenance of the ... Cape Colony in the Jubilee year ( 1897 ) the subject was taken up with much zeal , especially by Mr. Schreiner and ...
... colonies to take a share in the cost of the general defence of the Empire , commencing with the maintenance of the ... Cape Colony in the Jubilee year ( 1897 ) the subject was taken up with much zeal , especially by Mr. Schreiner and ...
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... Colony . A general rising of their colonial sympathisers would certainly have occurred , and we should have been driven to defend Cape Town at all cost . At the best , we should have had to reconquer South Africa from the sea northwards ...
... Colony . A general rising of their colonial sympathisers would certainly have occurred , and we should have been driven to defend Cape Town at all cost . At the best , we should have had to reconquer South Africa from the sea northwards ...
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... Cape Colony was open to any form of attack , and no reinforcements could be expected at the front for five weeks . At the northern apex of Natal about 16,000 Boers were ready to advance , and at least 6,000 more were preparing to move ...
... Cape Colony was open to any form of attack , and no reinforcements could be expected at the front for five weeks . At the northern apex of Natal about 16,000 Boers were ready to advance , and at least 6,000 more were preparing to move ...
Page 281
... Cape Colony . In war , ' said Napoleon , our aim must be to ' secure a good position , ' and in all 1900 . 281 The War in South Africa .
... Cape Colony . In war , ' said Napoleon , our aim must be to ' secure a good position , ' and in all 1900 . 281 The War in South Africa .
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