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' 76 SIR CHARLES WARREN AND SPION KOP ' If the Colonial farm map ^ is examined it will be seen that immediately south of Ladysmith is the rugged country of Grobelaars Kloof, ex- tending to the Tugela and Colenso, some twelve miles from Ladysmith, and that the only prac- ticable directions of advance within easy access of the rail-head at Frere were that to the right, following the line of railway to Pieters through very rugged mountains, and that to the left, by Potgieter's and Skiet's Drifts, ...through compara- tively open country, with a fairly good wagon road of sixteen miles from Frere to Potgieter's Drift, and a good wagon road of fourteen miles into Ladysmith over open country, the only hills to be met with being those commanding Potgie- ter's Drift from the south, and Lancers Hill, held by the Boers investing Ladysmith and six miles from that city. This open country is, however, commanded on the south by the Doom Kloof range resting on the Tugela. ' It was the left-hand advance that was chosen, but, though the Boer lines on the north side of the Tugela about Potgieter's Drift andVaalkrantz were commanded by the high ground of Mount ^ Sec reproduction.
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