Episode 272 - The Boers wring Major General Colley’s Column at Laing’s Nek
26 Apr 202619:56
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Weather, some say, is fickle. Of course nature is just nature but when you’re on high ground, the mountains, and the weather moves in, the temperature drops in minutes and wind…
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