id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13777 Phelan, T. The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters .txt text/plain 68190 3718 73 the exact day and hour of the entrance into Kimberley of the British Later in the day an express rider made his way through the Boer lines. people in Kimberley who asserted that the gentle Boer knew not how to the enemy was a thought which had long exercised the mind of Colonel Another letter in the afternoon; from the Boer General to Colonel were engrossed in the news when the Boer guns began to play. siege truism, that the Boers could not long stand up to a British day, we felt, would end the Siege of Kimberley, and bring again into enemy (the Colonel, not the Boer) personally supervised the despatch of reminded one of a good time coming when the horse would be locally The whirligig of the enemy (time, not the Boer, not the "Law") had again Long Cecil was a surprise to the Boers; they had heard of the gun, and ./cache/13777.txt ./txt/13777.txt