id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15699 nan A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans .txt text/plain 122238 4747 65 Boer line, and having seized Nicholson's Nek due north of Ladysmith The force of nearly 10,000 men under Lord Methuen detailed by Buller for Next day the British troops took up a position north of the river. Modder River Camp, where he received orders from Buller either to attack towards a higher hill overhanging Stormberg Junction called Rooi Kop. Gatacre had originally intended to attack the Boer position frontally, left intact by the enemy, possibly in order to entice the British troops right flank; but the weakness of the Boer position on that hill, which the following day, but on the 21st a cavalry attack forced De Wet out of Lord Roberts' plan for the movement on the Transvaal was an advance in Lord Roberts ordered Ian Hamilton to march from the right flank to the The arrival of Buller's force from the south gave Lord Roberts, who ./cache/15699.txt ./txt/15699.txt