South Africa:--Union forces under Colonel Brits attack and defeat the rebel commando under Maritz at Ratedrai.
The exact ground held by each commando cannot be accurately stated, but their approximate dispositions are shown upon the maps No.
De la Rey, however, whose commandohad taken but little part in that action, halted his men at Graspan, and occupied the excellent position which this redoubt offered for a further stand.
Meanwhile Major Urmston's detachment frustrated the attempt of the enemy, a Ladybrand commando under Commandant Froneman, to work down the bed of the river from Painter's Drift.
It was thus evident that immediate steps must be taken to check the commando at Colesberg, and it was for these reasons that the orders, already mentioned,[187] were issued by Sir R.
It was not until the 25th that the Boer commando seized the important railway junction of Stormberg, from which the British garrison had three weeks earlier been withdrawn by Sir R.
The death of Van der Tann and capture of his commando having brought about a fall in Dutch stock, they were now loyal British subjects, and consequently from every hotel, private dwelling-place, and shop the gay bunting streamed.
Leaving these empty save of scarecrow dummies, he sallied forth the same night, and surprised and captured the sleeping commando at dawn.
Engelbrecht knew of a commando of Boers who had been away in the country to the north, engaged on a punitory and marauding expedition against a tribe of natives.
The Boers took their payment chiefly in cattle, raided from the defeated tribesfolk; and Engelbrecht, who had been lately leading a commandoagainst some unfortunate natives, had returned with much plunder in oxen and goats.
On October 2nd the Transvaal Raads adjourned, and on the same day President Steyn informed the High Commissioner that the Free State burghers had been summoned for commando service.
But this plan was not practicable, because most of the families were those of prisoners of war, and the men still on commando were not so closely related to these families as to be willing to sacrifice their freedom for them.
The order for the execution of commando troops was extended by the Gestapo to include parachutists while Kaltenbrunner was Chief of the RSHA.
Dönitz said that if they were captured by the Navy their execution was a violation of the Commando Order, that the execution was not announced in the Wehrmacht communiqué, and that he was never informed of the incident.
On 18 October Hitler issued the Commando Order which was carried out in several instances.
The attacking commando became afterwards known as the "Ice Cream Brigade," being largely composed of Italians and Scandinavians.
They are said to have a Pom-pom and two Creusots; it seems to be the Wakkerstroom commando and Swaziland police, some 300 strong; the Ermelo commando has also moved on to the Barberton district.
Finally, the commando returned to Natal with some 5,000 head of cattle and the loss of six white men in the entire campaign.
The commandosurprised a large kraal from which both Moselkatze and his Induna happened to be absent, slew at least four hundred warriors, fired the village and returned to camp with nearly seven thousand cattle as trophies of victory.
The cavalry charged up to the river, where the Ermelo commando delivered such a murderous fire that two batteries of cannon had to be abandoned.
This is provided for under what is known as the Commando system.
He further made a treaty of alliance with him, and promised him a commando to help him in case of his being attacked by the Zulus.
The news of the collapse of the commando was received throughout the Transvaal, and indeed the whole of South Africa, with the greatest dismay.
On the return of that commando the children who became too weary to continue the journey were killed on the road.
Thereupon the whole commando retreated with great haste, the greater part of it going straight home.
A commandothen marched against him, and succeeded in taking "Mathebi's Kop," which was grandiloquently styled the Gibraltar of South Africa.
He saw that chief, who asked him where Shepstone was, and who was the commander of the commando to which he belonged.
One of them, Mr. Nelson, informed me that their duties were to remain with thecommando to which they were attached, and to keep a list of any men killed or wounded, forwarding a copy to Pretoria when an occasion offered.
Major Gilbert and Major Driscoll having moved down to Commando Drift, Col.
The column proceeded to Strydfontein, a drift 3 miles above Commando Drift (which was occupied by S.
The farm was inhabited, and the wife of the owner said that her husband was on commando, but that she had not seen him or the commando for two months.
There was plenty of space about a couple of miles outside the Golden Gate, and in the afternoon each officer moved his commando and encamped it in a new spot.
Bond located a Boer commando at Lakensvlei, to the south-west, on November 7th; and on November 8th, a general move of columns was begun with the object of surrounding it.
A line was therefore held running along the Vaal and Valsch Rivers, and the column, composed of the Sussex and Driscoll's Scouts under Major Gilbert, moved on the 12th of March from Hoopstadt for Commando Drift.
Hamilton had surprised a commando at dawn that morning, taken fifteen of them and chased the remainder, but in turn got his own baggage cut off at Kok's Kraal by a party of 150 who slipped behind him.
These were the outcome of a most successful surprise of a Boer commando carried out near Bothaville on the 6th of November.
Whether the hut in the kloof is still in its old place, I cannot tell; but a commando out here would soon rout out your stores, and either take you prisoner, or set a price on your head.
General De Wet, who did not seem quite at ease in this enclosure or kraal, for such it was, organised the Bethlehem-Heilbron burghers into a commando 2500 strong and left with these in the direction of Heilbron.
A few days after this sad event had occurred our commando arrived at the same farm.
We were delayed; the wholecommando arrived, and was checked by this wire.
Those of us who escaped the trap laid left for Heilbron with the hope of meeting De Wet's commando there.
I would submit that Boltman mistook the other member of the commando for Kritzinger.
De Wet found a ford where he and his whole commando passed through.
He crossed without prisoners, and everyone in his commando bears him out.
On one occasion no less than fifteen colonists, who were forced to attend the execution of a fellow-colonist, came to my commando and begged me to provide them with horses and rifles.
Next day, towards evening, a commando of Boers approached and skirmishing began.
When occasion arises for a Boer commando to be called out, the Field Cornet or local magistrate rides round to the neighbouring farms and commandeers, i.
The Boshof commando advanced on Riverton, a station on the railway to the north of the town, drove back a detachment of Cape Police, and looted and wrecked the town.
To this quarter was shortly afterwards seen moving a very strong commando of the enemy.
On the 21st the British column tardily approached the enemy's position, and was about two miles off it when intelligence arrived that another Boer commando was approaching the railway from the west.
A larger commando 1,500 strong, with three guns, was noticed drilling and practising on the north bank of the Orange River.
The Gloucesters in their turn mistook the terrified animals for a commando of Boers and fired upon them, increasing the turmoil and confusion.
On the 2nd, Dordrecht, a small place some miles to the north-east of Sterkstroom, was occupied by a commando of the enemy numbering about 500 men.
I speak under correction, but I understand the commando system to be this.
Well, the Dutch commando attacked Omatoko's village by night and burnt it, as Frank says, to the ground.
The other passes Hunter occupies in this way: Rundle comes up from the south-west to Fouriesberg through Commando Nek.
Having given these orders, I proceeded with my commando to the railway line.
Before proceeding any further I should like to explain that portion of the Commando Law which dealt with commandeering.
This was the name applied to a burgher, who, with or without an order from his officer, rode in advance of his commando to obtain bread for himself and his comrades.
On the following morning, the 20th of July, I let the commando go on, whilst I stayed behind to reconnoitre from a neighbouring kop.
His commando of one hundred and thirteen men was still at Piet Retief.
I gave orders to my commando to move on to Doornkop, which lies to the east of Kroonstad.
But this plan was not practical, because most of the families were those of prisoners of war, and the men still on commando were not so closely related to these families as to be willing to sacrifice their freedom for them.
During our stay there the other commandos, in obedience to Commando Law, joined us, and we proceeded to elect a Commander-in-Chief.
He had not known that it was my intention to cross the railway that night, but he had guessed as much from the direction I let my commando take.
I therefore ordered the various subdivisions of my commando to go and camp on the different farms in the neighbourhood.
Moreover, were the war to continue, commando after commandowould go over to the enemy.
Thus before my commando reached the line a fierce fire was opened on it from two sides.
At this moment another Boer commando was reported advancing from the left, and the Leicester Regiment and a battery of guns was sent against them.
What other wild dreams this bearded young man would have spoken of is difficult to guess, for at this moment a commando of Boer horsemen trotted up on the road.
A large commando was also despatched to threaten Mafeking, and another marched south towards Kimberley.
At the moment of the collapse of his commando rebellion broke out in the Northern Orange Free State and in the Western Transvaal.
His commando numbered about 2,000, and were frequently harried by the Union forces.
On the outbreak of war he was given a commando of irregulars on the strength of his knowledge of the frontier.
Though pursued by motor cars, he managed to escape hither and thither for several days, until his commando was broken up and he was run to earth by Colonel Britz.
On November 8 a rebel commando believed to be under the leadership of an ex-Major on the Union Defence Staff, was heavily defeated some thirty miles west of Warmbaths, the rebels losing 120 killed and wounded.
Colonel Brandt at the same time led his commando from Winburg within easy reach of De Wet, while General Lukin and Colonel Brits moving forward from the west completed the hemming in of the enemy.
De Wet's followers had gradually deserted, and he had only four men with him when he succeeded in joining a small commando of fugitives gathered at Schweizer Renek.
He began his campaign with an action at Winburg where he defeated a small loyalist commando under Cronje, and where one of his sons was killed.
It was planned that while Colonel Brits's brigade attacked Riet the Bloemhof Commando was to execute a flank movement and seizing Schwarze Kopje to endeavor to cut off the enemy's retreat.
De Wet, with a Boer commando in pursuit, now fled up the Vet River, then turning south at Boshof, divided his decreasing force into two divisions.
General Botha's commando attacked De Wet's forces and defeated them with great loss.
General Botha and his Transvaal commando by a forced night march had reached Winburg the day before and getting in touch with De Wet's forces encircled them on the east and northeast.
The Commando Chief put the pencil point on the location of the small French town, and then lifted his eyes to look at Dave and Freddy.
For the last five weeks we have been attending one of your Commando training schools, or rather, I should say, Ranger training schools.
Freddy Farmer's little Commando knife trick had obviously drained every drop of courage from his body.
The Commando Chief was grinning from ear to ear, and he looked as if he wanted to hug and kiss them both.
You won the Military Cross, and the Distinguished Service Order for those first Commando raids on Occupied Norway.
You're not going across as strictly Commando material.
The whole raid area will probably be flat as a pancake by the time the Commandotroops arrive.
He knew, from Commando training that it would be minutes before that mechanic would have full use of his body muscles and brain--particularly his brain.
And he pressed the upper half of his other arm against the hardness of his sheathed Commando knife hanging from his shoulder under his German tunic.
They had come over to take part in some Commando operation.
I don't know a thing, but I fancy you didn't go over to Commando H.
He bounced the Commandoknife in the palm of his left hand, and that was all the two Germans needed to kill any sudden decision they might have made.
My two men, both of whom have seen actual Commando service with me, carry out the test and report to me.
But I thought this Commando training was just a--well, a stopover between jobs Colonel Welsh had for us.
Forks and flashes of flame shining from the nek between the twin hills showed that the second column of the Dutch commando also was attaining its object.
The leader of a commando facing Thorneycroft's Horse advanced with a white flag.
We pay too much now, and if he does not soon behave himself, I shall send a commando or two into his country and make a new king in Swaziland!
Late that afternoon Tuys called a council of the commando leaders and prepared for next morning.
I got back to our camp just as the commando was saddling up to move to the attack.
When the two queens had gone, Tuys called into conference the commando leaders and arranged a plan for Umzulek's benefit.
In a short time Tzaneen and Labotsibeni arrived and were seated facing Tuys and a number of the commando leaders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commando" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
