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552:. On the night of 2/3 March the Boers penetrated into the town, isolating the outlying pickets and bringing the inner defence line under fire. The defence was obstinate and firing continued until 17.30 on 3 March, all but one of the pickets having been able to hold out. De la Rey withdrew during the following night.
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After this inconclusive engagement, Carrington gave up the attempt to reach
Brakfontein and returned to Mafeking. Paget's Horse had to fight a dismounted action to clear a Boer force blocking the road back, and Maj Paget was slightly wounded. Paget's Horse went back to its camp at Ottoshoop and spent
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into action. The small group of Paget's Horse protected the machine guns while the rest of the IY advanced by rushes over open ground towards the ridge and drove off the Boers. The Boer force rode off before the
Yeomanry could recover their own horses. Lieutenant Lethbridge was among the casualties,
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Contingent for the IY was authorised at the end of 1901 and a number of new battalions went out fully trained. During 1902 the remaining companies still serving in South Africa were consolidated into a smaller number of battalions. The 51st and 73rd (Paget's Horse) Companies transferred to
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and before dawn on 30 May a force of Boers surrounded the camp at Faber's Put, infiltrated into the garden and prepared to attack. Spotted by a
Yeomanry sentry who fired on them, the Boers fired back and a furious firefight ensued, while the Boers stampeded the Yeomanry's horses and shot down gun
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his left forearm being shattered, and
Trooper Mather was mentioned in despatches for bringing Lethbridge in under heavy fire. Following the action at Faber's Put Warren was able to clear Griqualand West without further trouble, the column entering Campbell and then
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by 30 May to prevent the Boers escaping northwestwards, while another detachment of 52nd
Company under Lieutenant J.G.B. Lethbridge escorted the column's supply convoy up from Belmont; this arrived on 29 May. Warren had placed insufficient
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Zeerust and Lichtenberg, fighting three separate engagements with parties of Boers. In one of these Paget's Horse had to saddle-up and gallop out of Ottoshoop to relieve a detachment of the
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498:. We were not, I think, under actual fire altogether for more than an hour, although the engagement itself lasted all day'
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703:"Paget's Horse in the Boer War | Military Sun Helmets"
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332:on 4 April; the 73rd Company followed on the
1118:Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978
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609:3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
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866:Rose-Innes, pp. 3–16, 20–1, 44–6.
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328:on 16 March and disembarked at
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274:Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
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520:to join a relief column for
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373:Bechuanaland Protectorate
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581:after a running battle.
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324:aboard the troopship SS
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166:during the
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129:Faber's Put
118:Engagements
110:Nickname(s)
100:Garrison/HQ
1167:Categories
1082:References
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456:Klerksdorp
420:Griquatown
405:Vaal River
318:lieutenant
306:Hansom cab
250:Gray's Inn
204:War Office
196:Black Week
878:The Times
464:Ottoshoop
427:Kimberley
330:Cape Town
246:barrister
94:Companies
31:1900–1902
726:, p. 18.
635:See also
492:pom-poms
476:Rhodesia
435:Mafeking
401:Campbell
371:and the
276:and the
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73:Yeomanry
835:Burke's
820:7 March
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761:7 March
724:Vol III
708:7 March
621:puttees
518:Vryburg
472:Zeerust
410:pickets
397:Douglas
336:Delphic
288:Service
242:Trooper
36:Country
722:Amery
496:kopjes
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326:Tagus
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79:Role
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334:SS
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