Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-08
LOSSES OF The WAR

wonderful details as is this of Beers
against Briton YOU take volumes to
tell in fuu. but here is a record which
gives in brief everything that need to be
told at this writing:
October II. 1S99-War declared by the
Boer republic. kruger's troops occupy
British territory.
October 12-First engagement of the
train at Kraal Pan, capturing Lieuten-
ant Nesbit, is men and two guns.
October 14-15- Beers invest Mafeking
and Kimberly.
October 2O.-Battle of Dundee. Brit
ish loss 226. Boer loss, 500. British won
but retired.
October 21-Battle Of Glands Laagte.
British loss 262 Boer loss 400 killed and
wounded, 200 prisoners. British, after
clearing the field, fell back on Lady
smith
October 22-Yule abandons Dundee
and his wounded there and falls back on
Sundays river.
October 24-White engages and dis
perses Beers, who seek to. block Yule's
retreat OF Ladysmith at Reitfontein.
British losses l1S. Roer loss not known.
October 24-Kimberly garrison en-
rage enemy at Riverton Road station,
dislodging Boer forces and killing Com
mandant Botha. British loss, , p~rivates
killed. 8 officers Is privates wounded.
October 26-Yule enters Ladysmith
and joins forces with Sir George White.
Octobe r 3O-White makes ~reconnais- !
sance at L~adysmith and retires with loss
of two battalions and a mountain battery
captured and 319 casualties.
November 3-Colenso evacuated. Gar
risons also withdrawn from Stormberg
and other places.
November 23-Metheun attacks Beers
. at Belmont, who command his road to
Kimberly. He disperses them with a !
known loss of 81 killed, so prisoners. ga
wagons burned, SO, 1000 rounds ammuni-
ton and $50 shells blown up. British
losses, 1885.
November 2s-Hildyard at Estcourt
attacks Beers who had interrupted his
communications.
November 25-Metheun pushes $500
Beers aside at Graspan, who seek to OPP
pose his advance to Kimberly, but in do
ing so he loses 1873 men, including lOo
men of the Naval Brigade.
November 25-Scott Turner surprises
sleeping Boer pickets and rushes enc
my's entrenchemtns, capturing % pris-
oners His losses were 5 killed, rs
wounded.
November 2s-Metheun engages Beers
at Modder river and drives the enemy
from it's position in an action described
by the British commander as zone of the
hardest and most trying fights in the
annals of the British army British
losses were 4 officers killed and 10
: wounded; rank and file. killed 81.
l wounded 379, missing Z; grand total, 476.
grand total, ATS.
November 2s-scott Turner, in another
l sortie, captures enemy's trenches and
= stroys some of his stores. but he is killed
and his men are forced to retire, with
loss of % killed and 81 wounded.
t December 9-10-Gatacre attempted
l night surprise of Boer position at
Stormberg, but failed. He Jared as Jared
i White in a similar enterprise, and re-
4 tired it'll loss of 656 men taken prisoners
and two guns. His other casualties were
"a killed and 81 wounded.
December 11-Metheun attempts a
=, similar movement at Magersfontein.
= The Highland brigade is caught while
marching in close oredr, and Metheun's
q proposed attack on the enemy's trenches
is turned into a repulse, with loss of II
y officers killed and 81 wounded, and 1O2
rank and file killed and 140 wounded.
Total losses, including 1862 missing, 905.
December 15-Buller attempted to
force passage of the Tugela at Colenso.
d but his guns, under Colonel Long, push
ing too far ahead, We're surprised by the
enemy, and We're, with the exception of
It two, captured. Buffers attack IN the
left, under Hart, had likewise failed, and
he was compelled by the loss of his ar
tillery to fall back on Chievely with a
loss in officers and men and guns of
ILL and Is respectively. His casualty
list included Z officers and 1877 rank and
n file killed; "A officers n 7O2 rank and
file ounded; Is officers were taken pris-
" oners, and the missing rank and file
n numbered 2O8 Gncluding 3 officers).
nua /, 19O0-French forces Beers
to evacuate Colesberg by threatening
Is their flank.
January Lieutenant Colonel Pitcher
defeats commando at ~Sunnyside, 80
miles northwest of Belmont, taking the
enemy's laager and 40 prisoners.
January 6-Colonel Watson of the
" First Battalion Suffolk regiment obtains
ID permission to attempt the night capture
e. of a kopje in the vicinity of Rensburg
Total casualties, 1852.
IN January 6-Boers e~ndeavored to carry
ut Ladysmith by assault. Fighting lasted
=. all day and some of the British en-
trenchments on Wagon hill were thrice
ne taken by the enemy and retaken. Brit.
~ ish loss was IA officers killed ana ~
:. wounded; 1876 men killed and ~
y wounded.
ur january S-Buller engages the Beers
.. ut Caesars camp and Wagon hill. Brit
" ish hold positions and Beers retire witt
honors about even.
he January 1O-Lord Roberts and Lore
:, Kitchener, sent out from London to tax
ne charge of the situation. which was dis
IS. amounting up to this time, arrive a
cane Town. Arrangements made To-
:" new move for relief of L~adysmith.
m. January 16-British forces prepare t.
cross the Tugela. Beers capture a patro
of the New South Wales Lancers nea
IT'S Rensburg.
Ie- January 17-1s-Generals Warren an
ms Lyttleton cross the Iuseia at foogeit
" er's drift. Generald Dundonald engage
the Beers in battle at Acton Homes.
ho January 23-24-Batle of Spion KoE
General Warren retires after suffering
terrible losses.
ZEN january 26-27-Troops under Genera
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