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Ladysmith

CHAPTER XIII
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It was too dark to see anything, even from the top of the hill, but in the morning I found we had destroyed another gun--the 4.7 in.

howitzer on Surprise Hill.

For weeks past it had been one of the most troublesome guns of the thirty-two that surround us.

It had a long range and accurate aim.

Its position commanded Observation Hill, part of the Newcastle road, Cove Hill, and Leicester Post, the whole of the old camp and all the line of country away to Range Post and beyond.


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