Together all the Boer guns opened.

Although the defending Boer guns sent down artillery fire, no casualties were taken and the city had fallen by the time the Volunteers arrived.

It features a Boer gun captured during a skirmish in the war.

About half-past five the Boer guns, which had for some unexplained reason been silent all day, opened upon the cavalry.

They brought back thirty-three prisoners as a proof of their victory, but the Boer gun, as usual, escaped us.

But our artillery silenced the Boer gun, and our infantry easily held their riflemen.

At one period it looked as if the gallant Boer guns had waited too long in covering the retreat of the burghers.

The Boer guns had opened fire, and considerable bodies of the enemy appeared upon the flanks and in front.

Meanwhile, the Boer guns maintained a galling fire, and kept in action by repeatedly moving their positions.

In the years ahead Sean would see men yawn like that while they waited for the dawn to send them against the Boer guns.