Word: raid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leaving the University he entered the Union Army as an artillery officer, and in July, 1862, he was made captain of the 5th Kentucky battery, known as Shaler's battery. He participated in Morgan's raid into Ohio, and was chief of artillery for fortifications under Burnside...
...Cushman, H. E. Fleishner, O. F. Langman, J. R. Lazenby, D. Macomber, J. R. Nichols, G. W. Proctor, W. D. Raid...
...Germany. He has been identified for many years with the development of the Rand gold district of the Transvaal, having acted as consulting engineer for the large English mining companies in that region. He was also a member of the famous "Reform Committee," which was tried after the Jameson raid. He will tell about the South African gold mines, taking for his subject, "The Physical Geography and Commercial Importance of South Africa...
Careful plans were laid, and for months arms were smuggled into the Transvaal. Everything seemed prosperous and Cecil Rhodes had agreed to time his raid so as to help out the rebels. He was too hasty, however, the plot was discovered, and the whole scheme ended in failure. The leaders were captured, but were released later on payment of a large ransom...
...course in medicine at the New York Co lege of Physicians and Surgeons. For the last fifteen years he has been one of the Outlanders in the Transvaal and has seen the trouble grow up until the crisis came last fall. At the time of the famous Jameson raid he was a member of the Reform Committee of the Johannesburg Outlanders. In his lecture tonight Dr. Wolff will give an outline of the condition in which the Outlanders have been of late years and will attempt to show the justice of their claims...