Angus Hamilton was in Mafeking for The Times when the Boers surrounded the town in October 1899, and he stayed through the whole siege under Colonel Baden-Powell. His dispatches, written as events happened and gathered in haste on his return, record the shelling, the night rounds of the forts, sorties, shortages and the long wait for relief.
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