The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... force , then it must remain directly under the orders of the Dutch Company while stationed in a Dutch colony.1 But to the minds of British ministers the authority of the Stadtholderate overseas was too precarious to admit of such a ...
... force , then it must remain directly under the orders of the Dutch Company while stationed in a Dutch colony.1 But to the minds of British ministers the authority of the Stadtholderate overseas was too precarious to admit of such a ...
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... Force largely composed of men of British stock were in the field against the rebels , he so disposed his forces as to put the brunt of the work on his Afrikander levies , so that the struggle appeared to a large degree to be one between ...
... Force largely composed of men of British stock were in the field against the rebels , he so disposed his forces as to put the brunt of the work on his Afrikander levies , so that the struggle appeared to a large degree to be one between ...
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... force from Longido . Operations were resumed on the 18th and by repeated use of enveloping tactics , which just failed to net the enemy's main force , General Smuts advanced along the railway as far as Kahé . Here a halt was made to ...
... force from Longido . Operations were resumed on the 18th and by repeated use of enveloping tactics , which just failed to net the enemy's main force , General Smuts advanced along the railway as far as Kahé . Here a halt was made to ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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