ROBERTS’S LAST BATTLE.
SOME I). 1 .1 AILS OF THE FIGHT. EFFECTIVE CA UY CHARGES. fßeeeived June 22, KAO p.m.) LONDON, Juno 2.1. Tlio del,Til;; of- tlio battle at Eerste Eahriokcn, nine milos oast of Pretoria, on tln> h!th lust., show that magnifi. rent generalship was displayed during a severe struggle. During I lie engagement a British battery endeavoured to seize a. gap in the enemy’s line, but a body of Boors galloped to wilhiu si'; hundred yards, and raked the battery with a heavy rifle (i re. The battery was, however, saved by a. charge of me Twelfth • Dancers, during whose operations Colonel the Earl of Airlio was killed. Simultaueously the Boers attacked the rigid lleak of the British lino, but lied demoralised 1 when the Household 1 Cavalry charged them.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4084, 23 June 1900, Page 7
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132ROBERTS’S LAST BATTLE. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4084, 23 June 1900, Page 7
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