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War sketches in South Africa: 1. Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal. 2. Heidelberg, Transvaal, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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War sketches in South Africa: 1. Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal. 2. Heidelberg, in the Transvaal. 3. Basuto War: camp near Mafeteng - an alarm, 1881. British Army - First Boer War. 'Our View of the town of Pretoria, and that of Heidelberg, which is situated on the road to Pretoria from the Natal frontier, are from Sketches by Captain W. J. Fowler, R.A. The encampment in front of Pretoria, at the time when the sketch was taken in 1879, was that formed by Sir Garnet Wolseley, with three infantry regiments, one of cavalry, and a battery of artillery. At Heidelberg, also, there were then a squadron of cavalry and a company of infantry, with two guns, and a redoubt was also built at this place...Our Illustration of the Basuto war represents the scene in the Camp at Mafeteng when the alarm was sounded, the pickets having been driven in by a night attack. [The sketch was] taken by Bugler Long, of the Capetown (Duke of Edinburgh's Own) Volunteers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A42_404

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Droits gérés

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44,7Mo (4,9Mo) / 28,2cm x 39,7cm / 3334 x 4688 (300dpi)

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river people male man men South Africa arts mountain mountains art guy British geography military war tent tents cannon Armed Forces century Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier print concept B&W Army warfare engraved engraving Pretoria 19th century black & white black and white B W armed services armaments British Army nineteenth century The Print Collector Boer Wars geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN military camp newspaper landscape Unknown 1880-1881 First Boer War 19th-century The Illustrated London News