Chapter XIV. Spion Kop By G. A. Henty @ Classic Reader

One for the soccer fans! Is Talking Stick Arena indoors ., twentieth M.I. 7341 Non-public Edwards T 2nd Bn. 5959 Non-public Cox W 1st Malta Coy., 9th Bn. M.I. Items trains then went downhill to the arrivals at Melbourne yard from Spion Kop. He and several different Boers have been standing on one of the hills close to the laager when they observed three British troopers emerging from one of many small forts on the outskirts of the city.
7698 Non-public Williams W 4th Bn., twentieth M.I. 3881 Private Howarth S 2nd Bn. 9761 Private Howarth C third Vol. 7210 Private Waterproof coat W.H. 4th Bn., twentieth M.I. Sir Charles Warren had on a regular basis had Spion Kop in his eye, as prone to be useful. 7029 Private Chapple F 2nd Malta Coy., ninth Bn. M.I.
On the suitable entrance, commanding the Boer strains on either side, towered the stark eminence of Spion Kop, so known as because from its summit the Boer voortrekkers had first in 1835 gazed down upon the promised land of Natal. Battle Of Spion Kop London: John Murray.
5522 Personal Hodson T 1st Malta Coy., ninth Bn. M.I. The British Army fought to seize a hilltop, and 300 men perished in the try, most of whom have been from Lancashire and many from town of Liverpool itself. The 2nd Scottish Rifles climbed Spion Kop to hitch Thorneycroft's troops whereas 1st Rifle Brigade attacked straight up the Twin Peaks to the East of Spion Kop.
Colonel Thorneycroft ended up accountable for the British Troops on top of Spion Kop on the demise of Major General Woodgate. 6486 Non-public Meddings W 4th Bn., twentieth M.I. Arsenal's followers have been the first to call their terraced area the Spion Kop, although the one at Anfield in Liverpool turned the most well-known of all of them.
After sixteen hours on the kop doing the job of a brigadier normal in whole absence of directions from Warren, he ordered an unauthorised withdrawal from Spion Kop after reporting that the troopers had no water and ammunition was working short. 7499 Non-public Ferris J 4th Bn., 20th M.I.
This photo reveals a section of the British graves at the website of the Battle of Spioenkop. Britain went to warfare with the Boers (Afrikaans-talking whites) in South Africa in 1899, to curb the independence of the 2 Boer republics - the Transvaal and the Orange Free State - and to manage their gold mines.
7971 Personal Walsh J 4th Bn., twentieth M.I. 8809 Personal Stewart J sixth Bn. Because of the miscarriage of plans Common Meyer was compelled to retire from Talana Hill in the afternoon, while the British power was enabled to escape southward into Ladysmith.
5863 Private Donerly J 2nd Malta Coy., 9th Bn. M.I. Males got here out of the bloody Spion Kop fight and associated amusing incidents of the wrestle, and by no means touched upon the grave phases till long afterward when their fund of laughable experiences was exhausted.