History of the British Regiments in South Africa 1795-1895 |
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12th Lancers 1st Battalion 27th regiment 2nd Battalion 72nd regiment 91st regiment Amatola ammunition arrived assegai attack Basutos Beaufort Bellairs Blinkwater boats Boers British Burghers bush camp Cape Corps Cape Mounted Cape Mounted Riflemen Cape Town Capt Captain captured casualties cattle Chief Colonel colony column command commenced companies D'Urban December detachment Dragoons Drift Dunn-Pattison Dutch enemy February Fingoes fire Fish River force Fort Beaufort Fort Cox Fort White Fortescue frontier Fullers Hoek Fusiliers Gaika garrison Grahamstown guns Hare hill horses Hottentots January Kaffir War Kaffirs Keiskama killed Kingwilliamstown kloof kraal Kreli land Lieut Lord Chelmsford Maqomo March ment miles military mountain moved Natal native officers operations ordered party patrol Post Pretoria reached Regt returned Rifle Brigade Riflemen Royal Artillery Sandile sent Sergeant settlers Sir Harry Smith soldiers Somerset South Africa Station Theal Transvaal troops Tyumie wagons Waterkloof whilst wounded wreck Zulus