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Title: With Roberts to Pretoria; a tale of the South African war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner’s sons
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long broke out.To move forward was impossible; the moon was on the pointof rising, and its light would enable, the Boers to pick themoff unerringly. Accordingly the companies out on the plainwere ordered to fall back in very open order, and this waseffected with a comparatively small number of casualties. The Canadians, however, now felt the benefit of the sacksof earth carried by the Engineers with them. These sackswere thrown down the instant the first shot was fired, andbehind these the two companies of Canadians and the Engi-neers lay in comparative shelter. This protection was soonincreased by the work of the men with shovels, and beforeday broke they were firmly established, and from their posi-tion were able to open a flanking1 fire upon the greater por-tion of the Boer trenches on that side. The other companiesof the Canadians had similarly entrenched themselves ashort distance farther back, and all felt that the end of the-ten days investment was close at hand. The Boers also
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CRONJE RIDES OUT TO SURRENDER. PAARDEBEEG 323 saw that to continue the struggle would result in their en-tire destruction, and at six in the morning a white flag wasraised and Cronje himself rode out. He was met by GeneralPretyman and conducted by him to the headquarters camp,where he met Lord Roberts, who shook hands with him.Cronje then said that he had come in to surrender. Thegeneral replied that the surrender must be unconditional.Cronje felt that in the desperate position in which he wasplaced he could not stand out for any conditions, but merelyasked that his wife, grandson, secretary, and adjutant should,with his servants, be allowed to accompany him. This wasgranted, and he and those with him were the same after-noon sent down with the other prisoners, about four thou-sand in number, under a strong escort to the railway, bywhich they were taken down to Cape Town. Only a hundred and fifty wounded were found in thecamp, and, taking the usual proportion of killed andwounded, onl
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