Notes on Hasty Defences as Practised in South Africa.pdf - 1 views
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o wagons were kept in as compact an order of march as possible, and on the leading wagon a cannon was carried.
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The cannon was fired, laager was formed, and at the cannon signal all the other parties rallied on the laager, which mas circular in form, oxen and horses inside, wagons chained together, and wagon saiIs over the wagons and pegpl to the ground outside.