Armoured Train captured at Kraaipan, 12 October 1899

Armoured Train captured at Kraaipan, 12 October 1899. Source: Rompel’s. Heroes of the Boer War, 142. “On the 12th of October 1899, at Kraaipan, he [De Wet] derailed and captured the armoured train and took Captain Nesbitt, V.C., and his 30 men prisoners. ”

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Bibliography

Rompel, Frederik. Heroes of the Boer War. London: “Review of Reviews” Office; The Hague and Pretoria: the “Nederland” Publishing Co., 1903. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 22 December 2014.


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