id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14426 Churchill, Winston London to Ladysmith via Pretoria .txt text/plain 86860 4828 76 line of hills necessary for the protection of the town, but a position hills beyond Colenso at full speed--and some said that the Boers did not horse the foot: the Dublin Fusiliers wound up the hill like a long brown The Boer guns, swiftly changing their position, re-opened We waited here near the guns for half an hour, and meanwhile the Boers Before the war began men said: 'Let them come into Natal and Two days later the Boers cut the railway south of Ladysmith at Pieters, The Boer lines run in a great crescent along the hills. in question--New Year's Day to wit--200 Boers set forth and attacked our silent Boer position, and the range of hills along which it stretched hundred Boers moving towards distant hills, to make sure of their line right, which rested on the lofty hill--almost mountain--of Spion Kop. The Boers, to meet this turning movement, extended their line westwards ./cache/14426.txt ./txt/14426.txt