[269] Persons left with the enemy as pledges that certain conditions will be fulfilled.
[270] Rex et Imperator, Latin for "King and Emperor." Our King is also Emperor of India.
[271] The English come.
[272] Born 1852.
[273] Governor of the Sudan. He defended Khartum, at the junction of the Blue and White Niles, for several months against the followers of the Mahdi, and was killed by them two days before the relieving force came in sight of Khartum (1885).
[274] Town of Natal, on the Klip River; besieged by the Boers from November 2, 1899, to February 25, 1900.
[275] Diamond-mining centre of British South Africa, 646 miles by rail north-east of Cape Town. It was besieged by the Boers from October 15, 1899, to February 16, 1900.
[276] Thirty miles south-east of Kimberley, on the Modder River. The Boer leader Cronje was here forced to surrender with 4,000 men, February 27, 1900.
[277] Capital of the Transvaal. It surrendered to Lord Roberts on June 5, 1900.
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