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Wednesday 11 July 2012

British transport Manila arrived at St. Vincent according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 27 July 1901

An item reported that the British transport Manila with on board 150 British soldiers and 602 Boers prisoners of war arrived at St. Vincent while underway to Bermuda.

Note
1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.