id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39348 Hamilton, A. (Angus) The Siege of Mafeking (1900) .txt text/plain 93648 3457 64 Protectorate troops and the Boer forces investing Mafeking would have The Boer Commandant had evidently determined to shell Mafeking from Boers, who had been observed to place some guns in position upon the Boer proceedings in their investment of Mafeking, the enemy threw no the Boers brought their new siege guns once more into play. point the Boer advance was protected by the guns, the heavy artillery estimate of the men against him would place the Boer forces at no less their guns had thrown into the town during the days which the siege every moment that the enemy's shell fire lapsed, the Boer marksmen the advanced trenches of the Boer position a short time before sunset, Boer trenches upon the east of the town earlier in the siege had Boers' main trench--a point from which one may hear at times our enemy come and the Boers again make a serious attack upon the town. ./cache/39348.txt ./txt/39348.txt