Author: Hall, Darrell.
Title: Halt! Action Front! with Colonel Long at Colenso.
Description: Covos-Day. Weltevreden Park 1999. Tan cloth boards, 183pp. illustrated b/w photos. No inscriptions. A Fine copy in protected dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780620241120 The story focuses on the three batteries of 4th Brigade Division, Royal Field Artillery, (7th, 14th, 66th). and the six `Long 12s' of the Royal Navy under the command of Col. Long. The Boer general, Louis Botha, scored a resounding victory in the battle of Colenso (15th Dec 1999) against the British forces under the command of Buller, sending shockwaves throughout the British Empire. Extensive appendices & bibliography.

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