Show FIGHT AT ABRAHAMS XRAAL Burghers Fought Like Heroes hee Times Repulsing British Pretoria Tuesday March 13 Commander Com-mander de Laareys report of the fight at Abrahams Kraal Saturday says The British were estimated to number 10000 men Their first assault vas repulsed re-pulsed Only two Boers were wounded The second assault was made on the his to the left of our position These his were of great strategic Importance Import-ance Appreciating this I and 300 men defended the position from I In the morning until sundown The burghers fought like heroes and three times repulsed re-pulsed masses of the British who kept relieving their tired men Every attempt at-tempt to storm was defeated At sundown sun-down there were not fifty yards between be-tween us The British lost heavily No accurate ble returns of our losses availa |