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Saturday 22 June 2019

British transport Milwaukee underway to Cape Town, South Africa according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 27 August 1901

An item dated London 24 August reported that the British transport Milwaukee left New Orleans towards Cape Town with on board 1,000 horses for the British army.

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.