Towards Pretoria: a Record of the War Between Briton And Boer, to the Hoisting of the British ...
Towards Pretoria: a Record of the War Between Briton And Boer, to the Hoisting of the British ...
Julian Ralph
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It had not fallen to any other generars lot to meet with a foe so situated as to embody the entire strength, under fullest conditions, of the newest methods of defence. It was easy enough for the world to cry "Halt!** in its interest in us, just as the Boers cried *' Halt ! *' in our progress when we reached Maaghersfontein, but the Boer command to us to halt must also be considered by military scientists everywhere as an order given to all armed nations to stop and unlearn much that they have ...known of war — for Maaghersfontein seems likely to be the end of the fighdng system that was practised by the Wellingtons, Wolseleys, Von Moltkes, and Grants of bygone days. Look at Maaghersfontein. It is a grass and bush-strewn plainj not perfectly level, but indented by a few slight ridges. Had Lord Met hue n advanced upon it as quickly from the Modder River fight as he rushed from one to the other of his preceding battles, he might Jiot have been checked, because the strength of their defence Modern War Methods 273 was wrought in the time he gave the Boers in which to build fresh trenches, and to recover from their rout.
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