Excerpt from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 of 6: From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec; 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance Into the Free State, 12th Feb; 1900 Surrender of Kuruman, after a stout resistance, to the Boers. Twelve Officers and 120 police captured. General French occupied a kopje overlooking Colesberg. Flight of Boers, leaving their wrecked guns and quantities of stores. Brilliant manoeuvre by Lieutenant Colonel Pilcher at Sunnyside. Captured the entire Boer camp, made forty prisoners, advanced and occupied Douglas on Vaal River. Colonel Plumer and Colonel Holds worth from Rhodesia continued their march to the relief of Mafe king. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.