id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38768 Creswicke, Louis South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree .txt text/plain 101349 5214 70 CAPTURE OF A BOER CONVOY BY GENERAL FRENCH'S TROOPS 40 15.--General French reached and relieved Kimberley, captured Boer laager Sir Redvers Buller's force captured the Boer position at Pieters. British cannonading then took place, the Kimberley guns shelling Tollpan largest force ever commanded by a British General--was a feat scarcely "General Gordon's brigade, far away on the left, was ordered to bring up [Illustration: CAPTURE OF A BOER CONVOY BY GENERAL FRENCH'S TROOPS NEAR for four days without food against a large force of Boers. Pretyman said, "Commandant Cronje, sir!" The two great men looked at fifty guns and howitzers, the number of Boer wounded was said to amount Cristo Ridge till the Boer line had been turned and the British forces Boers having vacated all their positions south of the river, and on the some kopjes held by the enemy when some Boers suddenly advanced on them. ./cache/38768.txt ./txt/38768.txt