British Victory Near Osfontein Reported by Lord Roberts
Lord Roberts announces a British victory east of Osfontein with a turning movement that forced Boer burghers to retreat. British force about forty five thousand. Boers under ten thousand. About fifty British casualties including Lt Kenwicks and Lt Bailey of the Twelfth Lancers. Lt De Crespigny of the Second Life Guards wounded. Generals Dewet and Delarey commanded the Boers.
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Osfontein
French
Kenwicks
Bailey
Twelfth Lancers
de Crespigny
Second Life Guards
Roberts Has 45000 Men In Major British Boer Engagement
From Lonpoy March 8 Lord Roberts reports from Osfontien and Poplar Grove near 14 miles eastward that his 45000 force has outflanked the Boer position and forced a retreat. Cavalry and infantry delivered a bold sweep, with about fifty British casualties. Estimates of Boer strength vary. observers at headquarters peg them from 4000 to 10000, while Roberts may have 45000 immediately available. The field remains unsettled with further prisoner counts and losses still uncertain.
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Lord Roberts
Osfontein
Pop‘lar Grove
Daily Mail
Daily Newsman
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Lord Roberta
Lord Methven
Lord Methuen
Kimberley
Mafeking
Roberta
Cape Pole
British in the Transvaal deep in Boer territory
A Natal dispatch reports British troops from Zululand entering the Transvaal. The force, led by Major Prendergast, includes mounted infantry Natal scouts and artillery, crossed Feb 23 and sits on Catassa Hill nine miles inside the Transvaal. Kruger returns to Pretoria and rallying Boers for renewed resistance.
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Loxpor
Natal
Transvaal
Prendergast
Catassa Hill
Retreat from Ladysmith Tracked to Natal Rail Disruptions
Report states Grers did not intend to retreat from Ladysmith and Biggersberg on March 3. Federals fell back to the Biggersberg line south of Dundee after a mistaken command, with wagons and tents abandoned or destroyed to halt British supply routes.
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Ladysmith
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Biggersberg
Natal
Dundee
Modder
Biggaraberg
Laager
Drakensberg
Hlanda
Glencoe
Steyn Says Burghers Will Fight to the Last Man
In an interview conducted in Bloemfontein, President Steyn told A G Hailes of the Daily News that Free State burghers are resolved to resist to the end. He warned that Pretoria's capitulation would be preceded by startling events in Europe and named a deputy president to govern Bloemfontein while he goes to Pretoria.
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Tha Daily News
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Steyn
Free State
Pretoria
Europe
America
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Dover
Minnesota
Minnesota Farmer's Institute
Bush
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Minneapolis
Casualty toll in Ladysmith relief reported
London March 8 A new list of Buller’s forepara casualties from Feb 14 to Feb 28 shows total losses of 1859 men. Inniskillings Dublin Fusiliers Connaught Rangers Royal Irish Fusiliers Scots Fusiliers are itemized with killed wounded and missing figures.
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Ladysmith
London
Buller
Inniskillings
Dublin Fusiliers
Connaught Rangers
Dutch Peace Movement Departs Cape for England Visit
A Cape Colony deputation of the Dutch party plans to visit England to seek a settlement of the South African question while preserving independence of the republics. The move follows a clash over annexation and reflects divisions within the British and loyal Dutch communities.
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Cape Colony
England
Carr Town
Cape
General White objects to rushed relief at Ladysmith
London dispatch reports Winston Churchill summarizing an interview with Sir George White commander of the Ladysmith garrison. White says he could have held out to April 3 but natives and others would starve. he would abandon stores and ammunition and force a last show of resistance to avoid capitulation. He says he begged General Buller not to hurry relief.
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London
Winston Churchill
George White
Ladysmith
Buller
Cronje and Boer Prisoners Ordered to St Helena
The military authorities decree General Cronje and the other Boer prisoners be sent immediately to the island of St Helena to remain until the war ends. Lord Roberts selects Lord Bathurst to command the escort. The cabinet reportedly will not pursue a prisoner exchange at this time.
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St. Helens
Lord Roberts
Lord Bathurst
St. Helena
Cape Town
London
Blaming the Antis Agitation in England Hinders War Efforts
A Morning Post correspondent from Osfontein reports on March 6 that peace party agitation in England undermines British victories by encouraging the Boers to persist in fighting and hoping for Conservative defeat.
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England
London
Morning Post
Osfontein
Two Sets Chosen in Republican Convention Delegations
Republicans split into two factions at the Indiana Indianapolis meeting over chairmanship and voting fraud claims. Henry Ferguson led a rival faction demanding a new vote, while McDonald presided and adjourned for a later session.
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Texas eFelopet
McDonn Seenaas
Henry Ferguson
Green
Ferguson
McDonald
Clean Your Seed and Improve Grain Quality
Dakota farmer urges seed cleaning to preserve grade and yield. Use the coarsest screen twice to remove foul seeds like cockle, then reprocess fines. Also notes a Fargo dancing class organized by Mrs Yeoman's, and a W C T U parlor meeting at Mrs George Dixon with a Fleur-de-Lis quartet and refreshments.
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Democratic platform adopted at Indianapolis convention
The Indiana Democratic convention endorsed a platform calling for constitutional revision to empower all people, public ownership of key industries, reduced work hours, public works for the unemployed, free inventions with public remuneration, national labor laws, social insurance, equal rights for women, initiative and referendum, and abolition of war in favor of international arbitration. State Republicans named delegates to Philadelphia with mostly Atlanta figures. a Times dispatch reports on a Boer surrender offer with impossible terms from Osfontein.
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United States
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Walter H. Johnson
H. A. Rucker
Internal Revenue
H. L. Johnson
Judson W. Lyons
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Osfontein
Superior Dining Service Praise on Route Trip
Rev Jesse R Zeigler of Montango North Carolina traveled to Burlington and on to Pennsylvania praising the dining service and accommodations as superior to any he has known in the west.
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Jesse R. Zeigler
Montango
N. C
Burlington
Pennsylvania
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