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    Wagon fort (redirect from Laagers)
    each other to produce an improvised military camp. It is also known as a laager (from Afrikaans), especially in historical African contexts, and a tabor...
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    Gruetli-Laager (/ˈɡruːtli ˈlɑːɡər/ GROOT-lee LAH-gər) is a city in Grundy County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,813 at the 2010 census...
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    wagons would force the wagons into an open column, instead of an enclosed laager as successfully employed defensively at Veglaer on 12 August 1838. The military...
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    (spear) motif. After passing through the gate one finds oneself inside a big laager consisting of 64 ox-wagons made out of decorative granite.: 15  The same...
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    could see the relief column laagering on the south bank of the Neyzane (now Inyezane) on the evening of 1 April. The laager was sited on a 300 ft (91 m)...
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    infantry manned the laager. The gunners had been told that if the Zulus got in close they were to abandon their guns and make for the laager. Wood's force mustered...
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    "Polytechnikum", also at Zurich). In the early 1890s, with his students Fritz Laager and Theordor Erismann, Kleiner conducted experiments to determine if changes...
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  • bushmen about the impi's arrival two days beforehand. Every man in the laager(camp) went to his designated post, the muzzles of the muskets were rinsed...
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    Laager Point is a conspicuous headland extending out from President Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...
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    irregulars and attacked the laager on 12 March. Using the early morning mist for camouflage, the Zulu were able to rush the laager and overrun the British...
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    The theatre was named the Laager by prominent theatre personality and social activist Pieter-Dirk Uys in 1979. A laager, also known as a wagon fort...
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  • Verwoerd, Melanie. "Melanie Verwoerd | Is the Freedom Front Plus making the laager bigger?". News24. Retrieved 3 November 2021. Gerber, Jan. "Elections 2021:...
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    defensive wagon fort, or laager. The Pechenegs fought as waves of horse archers, firing arrows continuously. They relied on their laager as a rallying point...
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    Pereh and reloading vehicle in a laager during the Gaza War...
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    in 3 waves. Following their insertion, D squadron established a patrol laager at a remote location outside al-Qa'im and awaited the arrival of B squadron...
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  • certain squads to support-by-fire. Close order formation Division (military) Laager Military organization Night attack formation 20:32; 27:57, Journal of the...
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    York: Dodd, Mead. "SP9 7AB postcode in Tidworth Camp - postcode SP97AB". "laager, n.", OED Online, Oxford University Press., September 2021, retrieved September...
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    oxen, and many Boer families joined their menfolk in the siege lines and laagers (encampments), fatally encumbering Cronjé's army. Roberts launched his...
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    them and invited Dick King to become their guide. The Boers set up their laager ('wagon fort') camp in the area of the present-day Greyville Racecourse...
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    descendants remain in places such as East Bernstadt, Kentucky, and Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee. The coal mining and manufacturing boom in the late 19th and...
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    the laager by firing alarm signals from the cannons. The enemy came forward at full speed and suddenly they had encircled the area around the laager. As...
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  • Battle of Kambula 29 March Zulu Impi defeated in an attack on a British laager Battle of Gingindlovu 2 April British defeat Zulu Siege of Eshowe 22 Jan...
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    February, were those whose laagers stood at the Moordspruit and the Bloukrans River. The first to be attacked were the laagers of the Liebenbergs, the Rossouws...
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  • Terminaal Drikus Miniseries 2020 Cas Oppie Kassie Brummer Nel Episode: "Die Laager" 2020–present Blood & Water Chris Ackerman Main role 2021–present Legacy...
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    their attackers had originated from a laager at Elandsfontein, an escorted expedition force was sent to the laager's believed location on 16 January 1881...
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    Isandlwana on 20 January, but did not follow standing orders to entrench. No laager (circling of the wagons) was formed. Chelmsford did not see the need for...
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    at the Wayback Machine Muglia, Caroline (21 June 2016). "Albinos in the Laager – Being Lebanese in South Africa". Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora...
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    writing. On the evening of 6 June jittery British troops and artillery in laager at Fort Newdigate opened fire on an arriving piquet company of Royal Engineers...
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    Ross) between 1979 and 1989. Cavalcade Conestoga wagon Convoy Covered wagon Laager War wagon Billock, Jennifer (October 3, 2016). "Nine Places Where You Can...
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  • Boer attendants to fortify the camp and transform his supply wagons into a laager. Upon receiving inaccurate reports from his scouts concerning the Zulus'...
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