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Louis Eugène Du Moulin. Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa
Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa
Table of Contents
PREFACE
EXPLANATORY
CHAPTER I. TO BLOEMFONTEIN
CHAPTER II. THE 21ST BRIGADE. THE TREK BEGINS
CHAPTER III. TO ZAND RIVER
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV. THE FIGHT AT ZAND RIVER
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER V. ACROSS THE VAAL
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER VI. DOORNKOP
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER VII. PRETORIA
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER VIII. DIAMOND HILL, FIRST DAY
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER IX. DIAMOND HILL, SECOND DAY
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER X. TO SPRINGS
CHAPTER XI. TO REITZ
CHAPTER XII. TO MEYER'S KOP
CHAPTER XIII. RETIEF'S NEK
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIV. TO THE BOER LAAGER
CHAPTER XV. TO WINBURG
CHAPTER XVI. UP AND DOWN
CHAPTER XVII. TO LINDLEY
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RAILWAY NEEDS REPAIR
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER XIX. TO BOTHAVILLE
CHAPTER XX. VENTERSBURG ROAD
CHAPTER XXI. BACK TO LINDLEY
CHAPTER XXII. IN GARRISON
CHAPTER XXIII. THE RAISING OF THE MOUNTED COLUMN
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXIV. TWO DISTRICTS
CHAPTER XXV. DE PUT
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXVI. TO VLAKFONTEIN
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXVII. ABRAHAM'S KRAAL
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XXVIII. NORTHWARDS—AND THE END
CHAPTER XXIX. THE THIRD BATTALION
APPENDIX A. THE 13TH M. I
APPENDIX B. THE 21ST M. I
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
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Louis Eugène Du Moulin
Published by Good Press, 2019
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At Ferreira, close to our little camp, a brother of Mr. Steyn, the late President of the Orange Free State, had a sort of country residence, and we saw a good deal of him, as he and his wife were very civil in allowing the men to purchase bread, butter, and other things from their farm.
Mr. Steyn was a typical Boer, a fine, big man, with a long, black beard; he was a solicitor in Bloemfontein, and of course an educated man, who had travelled over England and the continent. Both he and his charming wife used to be astonished, or pretended to be astonished, at the never ending succession of troops daily passing their house on their way up to the front, and used to ask us where all the troops came from. We, naturally, did not give the show away, and explained carefully that there were lots more where they came from, and that there was our magnificent Indian army behind them again, only waiting to be called on.
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