If Warren punches west through the Boer line, I'm sure we can make it.

If that hill was captured, English cannon could destroy the Boer lines, and the war would be over.

So brave-she came to me through the Boer lines.

During the war, Burnham spent much time behind the Boer lines gathering information and blowing up railway bridges and tracks.

He arrived at the defensive positions on 1 December and surveyed the Boer lines the following day.

Along the northeasterly stretch, the river and railroad are commanded by a series of hills which represented the Boer main line of defence.

It lay almost exactly at the centre of the Boer line.

In the column the feeling grew that unless it could burst through the Boer lines at this point it was done for.

The two brigades at either end of the Boer lines had lost no chance of pushing in, and now they had come within striking distance.

The front trenches of the British were at that time seven hundred yards from the Boer lines.