Le battaglie del diciannovesimo secolo . ull di speranza ed è stato anche detto siegemight essere sollevata dalla sera. Prima di mezzogiorno,scrive il sig. Nevinson nel suo diario dell assedio, come ho girato intorno agli avamposti, ho trovato il goodnews battenti che una buona notizia è giunta. Esso wasthought migliore non ci dica cosa, affinché simili childrenwe dovrebbe crv se deluso. Ma è confi- forza limitatrice di aver fatto anj- seri progressi,Sir Charles Warren è stato impegnato in holdingsomething come un consiglio di guerra e di alterare hisplans. Egli era stato inviato attraverso il fiume dipoter ruotare il fianco di Boer. Egli aveva ora compone hismind che questo woul

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Battles of the nineteenth century . ull of hope, and it was even said the siegemight be raised by the evening. Before noon, writes Mr. Nevinson in his diary of the siege, as I rode round the outposts, I found the goodnews flying that good news had come. It wasthought best not to tell us what, lest like childrenwe should crv if disappointed. But it is confi- Relief Force having made anj- serious progress, Sir Charles Warren was engaged in holdingsomething like a council of war and altering hisplans. He had been sent across the river toturn the Boer flank. He had now made up hismind that this would take mere time andrequire a longer detour than he had originallyanticipated, and, perhaps from a misunderstand-ing of BuUers instructions to him, he thought hehad not sufficient supplies available for such aprolonged operation. The published despatchesreveal something like a conflict of views betweenWarren and Buller on the situation, the begin-ning of a divergence of opinion that had a seriouseffect on the subsequent operations.. THE BOER rosrno.Ns. dently said that BuUers force has crossed theTugela in three places—Wrights Drift eastward, Potgeiters Drift in the centre, and at a pointfurther west, perhaps Klein Waterfall, wherethere is a nine-mile plain leading to ActonHomes. The names of the brigades are evenstated, and the number of losses. It is said theBoers have been driven from three positions.But there may not be one word of truth in thewhole story. I was early on Observation Hill, watching that strip of plain to the south-west.No shells were bursting on it to-day, and thesound of guns was not so frequent. Our helio-graph flashed from the far-off Zwart Kop, andhigh above it, looking hardly bigger than avulture against the pale blue of the Drakensbergprecipices, rose Buffers balloon, showing just apoint of lustre on its skin. On the evening of this day, so far from the Warren, after relating that he had onthe 19th got his transport up to VentersSpruit and pushed two o

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