With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader

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Henty George Alfred. With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. THE BURSTING OF THE STORM

CHAPTER II. A TERRIBLE JOURNEY

CHAPTER III. AT THE FRONT

CHAPTER IV. DUNDEE

CHAPTER V. THE FIRST BATTLE

CHAPTER VI. ELANDSLAAGTE

CHAPTER VII. LADYSMITH BESIEGED

CHAPTER VIII. A DESPERATE PROJECT

CHAPTER IX. KOMATI-POORT

CHAPTER X. AN EXPLOSION

CHAPTER XI. BACK WITH THE ARMY

CHAPTER XII. THE BATTLE OF COLENSO

CHAPTER XIII. PRISONERS

CHAPTER XIV. SPION KOP

CHAPTER XV. SPION KOP

CHAPTER XVI. A COLONIST'S ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XVII. A RESCUE

CHAPTER XVIII. RAILWAY HILL

CHAPTER XIX. MAJUBA DAY

CHAPTER XX. LADYSMITH

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A group of excited men were gathered in front of the Stock Exchange at Johannesburg. It was evident that something altogether unusual had happened. All wore anxious and angry expressions, but a few shook hands with each other, as if the news that so much agitated them, although painful, was yet welcome; and indeed this was so.

For months a war-cloud had hung over the town, but it had been thought that it might pass over without bursting. None imagined that the blow would come so suddenly, and when it fell it had all the force of a complete surprise, although it had been so threatening for many weeks that a considerable portion of the population had already fled. It was true that great numbers of men, well armed, and with large numbers of cannon, had been moving south, but negotiations were still going on and might continue for some time yet; and now by the folly and arrogance of one man the cloud had burst, and in thirty hours war would begin.

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"It is going to be pretty cold here to-night, and desperately hot to-morrow," Chris said; "but we can put up with that. I would stand it for a month rather than stop any longer among these brutes." There was a general murmur of agreement.

"Thank heavens," one of them said, "the next time we meet them will be with arms in our hands. We have a long score to pay off, and we shall, I expect, have plenty of chances. The Boers are boasting that they will soon drive the last Englishman out of South Africa, and seem to regard it as a sort of general picnic. They will find out their mistake before they have done."

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