Schlachten des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. rave Soldat und sie kämpften gegen sie nicht zögern, ihrer langen Lebensdauer asan Beispiel sogar Engländer zu schreiben. Die whoinsulted waren keine Soldaten, und sie gaben afair Messen der eigenen Niedrigkeit des Verstandes whento ihren Spott auf die Gefangenen Sie addedunmanly Spott und jests an der tapferen Frau. Wer geteilt hatten mit Cronje die zehn Tage ofdanger und Elend unter den indescribablehorrors Der laager bei Paardeberg. Der deutsche Kommandeur ot der Freien StateArtillery. Vier seiner Krupp Kanonen wurden foundin Der laager, aber ihre Sehenswürdigkeiten, steißlage-Bausteine und El

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Battles of the nineteenth century . rave soldier who fought against them didnot hesitate to write of their long endurance asan example even to Englishmen. Those whoinsulted them were not soldiers, and they gave afair measure of their own baseness of mind whento their sneers at the prisoners they addedunmanly gibes and jests at the brave woman.who had shared with Cronje the ten days ofdanger and misery among the indescribablehorrors of the laager at Paardeberg. the German commander ot the Free StateArtillery. Four of his Krupp guns were foundin the laager, but their sights, breech-blocks, and elevating screws had been taken out andburied somewhere before the surrender. The Boer prisoners were sent down in partiesto Cape Town, where a inimbcr of them weresoon ill with enteric fever, the result of drinkingthe infected water at Paardeberg. As our owntroops had had to use the water of the Modderduring the siege, the same disease soon showeditself in many of the regiments. About 1, 50amen had been killed and wounded on our side. THE ROER WAR. uiiring the operations, mostly in Kitchenersbattle, and the subsequent loss, by disease con-tracted during the same period, was evengreater. On the day of the surrender, thevictorious army was almost as short of suppliesas Cronjes force, and after the victory LordRoberts halted his army for some days to givethe mffii a rest, obtain some more horses for thecavalry, and accumulate a much-needed reserveof forage, provisions, and amnumilion. Cronjes capture at Paardcberg was un-duubtcdh- a heavy blow to the cause of theDutcli Republics, but its importance was greatlyexaggerated at the time from one point of view, though from another it might be said that itsvalue was underrated. Onlj- a detachment ofabout 4, 000 men with four disabled field pieceshad been secured as the result of the siege ofCronjes river-bed fastness by an army out-numbering the Boers more than seven to one.But in the matter of mere numbers thissuccess was more important th

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