id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 20987 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 .txt text/plain 60225 2452 61 Boers' original plan of campaign was to force the British out of general officer killed in the war), considered that with the force British military situation in Natal when the campaign opened; namely, British forces in South Africa, including the reinforcements so far force crossed the Buffalo River at Landman's Drift, ten miles east of the Boers, chiefly a body of Free State men, evacuated their positions Cape Town to take chief command of the British forces in South Africa. NOTE.--The effective British force shut up in Ladysmith on contemplated by the Boers, a very strong British force; incapable, River sixty miles away, with 2,500 men (British) holding the opposing forces places the Boers at 15,000, the British at 11,000. this began the general advance of the British forces in Natal, which a Major-General Hart, forming the left flank of the British line. A line of hills between these and the British force ./cache/20987.txt ./txt/20987.txt