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"'d be marched rapidly that as well asby day. The completed at bast of possible to kinous
tions be taken, Isc
Larracks on the
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as bera, or ang defain - rear of the batteries.
com sunous Town to
Ling Chapmans Bay is
udes, or two hours.
to conceive any contin- Id necessitate troops Her in position after the and Jam fopinion tra expense which eights would entad
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'dings) and the discrupt
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to the troops which would be caused by in suck a step may well be spared.
Half a battalion of British Sufantry, say
350 men, and about the same
number.
of well trained Volunteers, kept together, and properly handled, ought to be able to prevent at least twice their number
even ascending
ascending the heights. -looking thapman's Bay in
frome
advance on Sunous Lown
o
over-
in views to an
The natural strength of the ground is
very great, and wory
wery movement of the
wenry could be plainly.
- cipated.
seen,
and anti-
thould the survy by any chance have got possession of the heights, cong wick of ground in their advance could be dispected; the advantage being alto. -gother on the defending side.
The Froops from fape Town woverta
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