Editor’s note:  The following is extracted from With the Boer Forces, by Howard C. Hillegas (published 1900).  The location of this military action, part of the Second Anglo-Boer War, is variously called

Editor’s Note:  The following account is taken from Historical Tales, Volume IX, by Charles Morris (published 1908). Historical tales have much to do with war and bloodshed, with rides and raids, with