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Blackfoot News
Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho
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The English-Boer War has reached a stage where British forces must aggressively engage Boers on their fortified battlefields, relying on superior numbers to overcome positional advantages and achieve victory, though at the cost of significant British casualties.
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Whatever may happen from movements of troops and maneuvering for advantage by the British it is plain to see that English blood will flow as the waters of a river before they can plant their flag in peace over the Boer land.
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Boer Land
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english blood will flow as the waters of a river; english plan to rush to victory with heavy battalions
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The English-Boer war has reached a point where the English must take the aggressive and fight the enemy on his own selected and fortified battlefield. Other things being equal this gives the advantage to the Boers. But the English propose to put men enough in the field to overcome the advantage of position and rush to victory with the force and momentum of heavy battalions. Whatever may happen from movements of troops and maneuvering for advantage by the British it is plain to see that English blood will flow as the waters of a river before they can plant their flag in peace over the Boer land.