Show BRITISH WIN DECISIVE BATTLE boers lose in killed wounded and captured british loss boer artillery y ineffective london oct 33 21 A great battle his has been fought at glencoe reuniting in a d decided victory for the british the battle raged for eight hour hours the boon boors from their position on a bill overlooking the british camp begin began dropping chels from a battery of four 0 or r fire give guns juet just al at daybreak their force was estimated at about the british after a it desperate fight repelled the attack captured the aloer artillery an 1 the almost inaccessible positional poil tion of the th enemy general sy mom moos british commander was wa arl 1 oua ly tf if not fatally wounded and the command passed to general ule the dispatches leave no doubt that the boera failed in their endear ende aTor 0 r to maice me ice a is combined attack the pre presume sump tion being that only one of threw three boer command commands waa was engaged the young and impetuous forcing the fight without wilting waiting for the to arrive the firing of the boers ura was not so 0 o us as must have been expected from troop troops occupying uch such an excellent poni petition tion but the Brit lith lost heavily charging cb argio up hill and only the consummately y brilliant way in which general sj ainoo anions had trained them to fighting of the kind saved them thelin from away the hill wa was almost inaccessible to the storming party and any habitation hebl hebi tatton tation would have lost the duy I 1 he boer artillery was wa ineffective A rough estimate places the british lost at killed and wounded and that of the botro at goo A number of boer boter prisoners were captured |