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other storm – the storm of lead, of blood, of death. In a twinkling the first line was down behind
rocks firing fast, and the bullets came flicking round them. Men stopped and started, staggered and
dropped limply as if the string were cut that held them upright. The line pushed on; the supports and
reserves followed up. A colonel fell, shot in the arm; the regiment pushed on.
They came to a rocky ridge about twenty feet high. They clung to cover, firing, then rose, and
were among the shrill bullets again. A major was left at the bottom of that ridge, with his pipe in his
mouth and a Mauser bullet through his leg; his company pushed on. Down again, fire again, up again,
and on! Another ridge won and passed – and only a more hellish hail of bullets beyond it. more men
down, more men pushed into the firing line – more death-piping bullets than ever. The air was a sieve
of them; they beat on the boulders like a million hammers; they tore the turf like a harrow.
Another ridge crowned, another welcoming, whistling gust of perdition, more men down, more
pushed into the firing line. Half the officers were down; the men puffed and stumbled on. Another
ridge – God! Would this cursed hill never endff It was sown with bleeding and dead behind it; it was
edged with stinging fire before. God! Would it never endff On, and get to the end of it! And now it
was surely the end. The merry bugles rang out like cock-crow on a fine morning. The pipes shrieked
of blood and lust of glorious death. Fix bayonets! Staff officers rushed shouting from the rear,
imploring, cajoling, cursing, slamming every man who could move into the line. Line – but it was a
line no longer. it was a surging wave of men – Devons and Gordons, Manchester and Light Horse all
mixed, inextricably; subalterns commanding regiments, soldiers yelling advice, officers firing
carbines, stumbling, leaping, killing, falling, all drunk with battle, shoving through hell to the throat of
the enemy. And there beneath our feet was the Boer camp and the last Boers galloping out of it. There
also – thank Heaven, thank Heaven! – were squadrons of Lancers and Dragoon Guards storming in
among them, shouting, spearing, stamping them into the ground. Cease fire!
It was over – twelve hours of march, of reconnaissance, of waiting, of preparation, and half an
hour of attack. But half an hour crammed with the life of half a lifetime.
G. W. Steevens
From Capetown to Ladysmith,Edinburgh, William
Blackwood, 1900.
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