CHAPTER VII
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The Magersfontein Battle.
Heavy Losses on Both sides--The Hottest Fight of the British Army--Gatacre's Serious Reverse--Methuen's Failure--The Losses--What Dispatches Say--Sudden Change of Public Sentiment--The Official Boer Account
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South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I: Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900
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The Magersfontein Battle.
Heavy Losses on Both sides--The Hottest Fight of the British Army--Gatacre's Serious Reverse--Methuen's Failure--The Losses--What Dispatches Say--Sudden Change of Public Sentiment--The Official Boer Account
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