Saturday 31, 1900. Sanna's Post.

Boer forces under Christiaan de Wet attacked at Sanna's Post, taking 400 British POWS and cutting off the water supply to Bloemfontein, which resulted in the spread of typhus. 

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Friday, March 30, 1900. Child and Female Labor.

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Tuesday, March 27, 1900. Gen. Joubert dies.

South Africa's best general, Piet Joubert, died of peritonitis at age 68.

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Sunday, March 25, 1900. Socialist Party founded in United States.

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Friday, December 15, 1899. British defeat at Colenso.

The British lost 1,097 men at Colenso, the their such serious loss in one week.

Boer commandos with their sights set on long range at Colenso.

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Wednesday, December 13, 1899. British victory in the Cape Colony.

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Thursday, October 12, 1899. Battle of Kraaipan and a Homecoming in Vermont.

The Boer Potchefstroom and Lichtenburg commandos attacked and captured the British garrison and railway siding at Kraaipan between Vryburg and Mafeking.

Admiral Dewey was welcomed home to his native Vermont in what was declared as Dewey Day.

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Wednesday October 11, 1899. The Boer War Commences.

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Wednesday, October 28, 1914. Collapsing Maritz Rebellion.

Rebel Boer units were attacked by the South African Army, forcing Boer general Christian Frederick Beyers to disperse his forces.

The Germans suspended attacks at Ypres to regroup.

Exhaustion and language difficulties frustrated a British effort at Neuve-Chapelle.

French troops held at Armentières in spite of a two day German artillery bombardment.

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Tuesday, October 27, 1914. Massive Central Powers losses in the East.

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Monday, October 12, 1914. The trial of the Serbian conspirators.

The trial of Serbian conspirators who had worked to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand commenced.   Gavrilo Princip stated:

I am a Yugoslav nationalist and I believe in unification of all South Slavs in whatever form of state and that it be free of Austria ... By means of terror.

The Germans took Ghent.

The French and British took back the Mont des Cats.

The Union of South Africa declared martial law in response to the Maritz Rebellion.

Boston won game three of the World Series.

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Sunday October 11, 1914. Front line stabilization sets in.

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Tuesday, February 27, 1900. Surrender at Paardeberg.

Boer troops surrendered at Paardeberg.

Bayern Munich, the football club, was founded.

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February 23, 1900. The passing of Blessed Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga.

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Sunday, February 18, 1900. Bloody Sunday.

British forces under Lord Kitchener charged Boer trenches at Paadeberg, sustaining 1,100 casualties of which 280 were deaths.  The day was thereafter called "Bloody Sunday".

The attack in which the Boers head their fire until the British were within 100 meters of their trenches, was a failure.

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Thursday, February 15, 1900. Siege of Kimberley lifted.

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Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Battle of Spion Kop.

Boers at Spion Kop.  Kop is a Boer word for "head".

An an 8,000 Boer force defeated a 25,000 British contingent in the Battle of Spion Kop.  The British took 243 dead and 1,250 wounded, and 300 captured.  The Boers 68 killed and 267 wounded.

The assault was badly made by the British, failing to appreciate the nature of modern rifle fire.

A council of the Chinese "Grand Councillors, Grand Secretaries and Presidents of the Board" agreed that the Guangxu Emperor should abdicate. P'u Ch'un, age 14, was announced as heir apparent to the throne.

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Sunday, January 21, 1900. Frontier types and technology.

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Saturday, January 6, 1900. Boer War events.

For the first time in centuries, the sword of the Gorsedd bards was unsheathed at Merionethshire in Wales and the chief bard "invoked the blessing of God on British arms in South Africa, and announced that the sword would not be sheathed again till the triumph of the forces of righteousness over the hordes of evil".

Boer troops fighting at Ladysmith attempted a raid on British positions resulting in 1,000 British casualties.

The German ship Herzog was seized by the HMS Thetis on suspicition that it was carrying supplies to the Boers, which it was not.

Last edition:

January 3, 1900. No giggling.

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