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English: The British Army marching through the streets of Pretoria

Identifier: battlesofninetee06forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
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, capturing on the way a small party of Boers with a Maxim. He sent a flag of truce into the town to demand its surrender, and the officer returned with a message from General Botha and Burgomaster de Souza to the effect that the place would be surrendered next morning. All through the night trains were steaming out of the town, some of them northwards by the Pietersburg railway, but most of them east-wards by the Delagoa Bay line. They were taking away stores, guns, men and horses. As soon as the sun rose on the 5th, the British troops began to march forward to enter the town, lau Hamilton from the west and Pole-Carew from the south. The forts were occupied, and the Guards, with the Grenadiers in front, soon reached the railway station. As they approached it, a train drawn by two engines, with ten truckloads of horses and one truck crowded with men, steamed out of the station. Another trainload of Boers was standing at the platform. The leading company of the Grenadiers doubled forward to capture them.
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364 THE BOER WAR. Some pistol-shots were fired from the train, and the Guards halted and fired two volleys at shortrange. Then the Boers held up their hands and surrendered. No one had been even wounded by this firing at close quarters. Three engines and a large quantity of rollingstock were secured at the station. The Guards then marched into the town with fixed bajonets. As they reached the Model Schools the Boer guards threw down their arms and the British officers rushed out to join their comrades ;I2q officers were thus set at liberty. The town was now clear of the enemy, and at two oclock Lord Roberts made his formal entry, and the British flag was hoisted on the Parliament House. The victorious army then marched past in front of it, the Guards leading, and it was three hours before the long procession had gone by. So ended the second stage of the Boer war. The first had closed when Kimberley and Ladysmith were rescued and the Boer invaders retired from the north of Cape Colony. In the second,

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