id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16466 Pearse, Henry H. S. Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith .txt text/plain 62250 2550 68 could watch Boers hard at work preparing positions near Lombard's Kop, throwing shells over the town, to burst very near Sir George White's in khaki--The Boer search-light--Shelling of the hospital--General if we could attack one point at a time, seize the Boer gun there, and our troops withdrew they were shelled right and left by Boer guns that _November 23._--Notwithstanding Sir George White's protest, Boer guns Middle Hill opened to-day, shelling first the Rifle Brigade piquets on positions may be captured at night, and Boer siege guns silenced for attack on the enemy's gun positions coincided with General Sir until nearly dark from Boer guns all round our positions. the Boers have mounted another howitzer on Surprise Hill to-day, and Boer guns do not fire many shrapnel, nor do the shells burst always in Hill--both Boer positions having guns of long range mounted on them; and ./cache/16466.txt ./txt/16466.txt