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The Transvaal War: the Boers' position at Laing's Neck, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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The Transvaal War: the Boers' position at Laing's Neck, [South Africa], 1881. 'Laing's Neck; 2. Hill attacked by the 58th Regiment, Jan. 28; 3. Road from Newcastle to Transvaal; 4. Road from Prospect Hill Camp to Laing's Neck...Our view of the entire position, with the roads from Newcastle and from the British Camp at Prospect Hill, by which Sir George Colley advanced on Jan. 28, and with the Pass at Laing's Neck and the hill up which the 58th Regiment made the attack, fills an Engraving that extends the length of one page. It is from a Sketch by Captain Ernest Thurlow, of the 60th Rifles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A43_383

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24,8Mo (1,4Mo) / 42,1cm x 14,8cm / 4970 x 1746 (300dpi)

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hill hills South Africa arts mountain mountains art British geography war Armed Forces century Britain newspapers press print concept B&W Army warfare engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W armed services British Army nineteenth century The Print Collector Boer Wars geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Drakensberg Unknown 1880-1881 First Boer War Laing's Nek Transvaal War 19th-century The Illustrated London News Ernest Hovell Thurlow Thurlow Ernest Hovell Thurlow Ernest Ernest Thurlow