Armstrong Gun captured at Stormberg. Source: Rompel’s. Heroes of the Boer War, 133. “Rushing General Gatacre's battery, the Boers succeeded in in driving off the English artillery, which where unable to hold out against their rifles, though they defended their batteries with the greatest courage. Three pieces fell into tho hands of the heroes of Stormberg (10 December 1899). ”
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Bibliography
Rompel, Frederik. Heroes of the Boer War. London: “Review of Reviews” Office; The Hague and Pretoria: the “Nederland” Publishing Co., 1903. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 22 December 2014.
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