Lexicographical Neighbors of Laagered
Literary usage of Laagered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading Points in South African History, 1486 to March 30, 1900, Arranged by Edwin A. Pratt (1900)
"On the 20th Cronje and his men laagered near Paardeberg, where they were surrounded
and subjected to a terrible bombardment by the British, who also stopped ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1882)
"There we laagered with shelter-trench outside. It would have taken 100000 Zulus
to take it. I and Keith (Turnour) on outpost duty all night (blue funk), ..."
3. South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke (1900)
"Newdigate and Wood laagered their waggons and prepared for the arrival of an impi
of some 20000 Zulus advancing from Ulundi. On the following day a large ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Other of the farmers hastily laagered and were able to repulse the Zulu attacks;
the assailants ... On Sunday the loth of December, while laagered near the ..."
5. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Blanche St. John Ballairs, Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs, Lady Bellairs (1885)
"A halt was made for the night at 5 PM, two miles from Sand Spruit. The waggons
were laagered, double sentries and look-outs placed. ..."
6. With Plumer in Matabeleland: An Account of the Operations of the by Frank W. Sykes, C. G. Löwinger (1897)
"Gwelo township was laagered up and formed its small population into a defence
force, which did good work in the surrounding districts. ..."
7. The Story of the Expansion of Southern Africa by Alexander Wilmot (1895)
"The king's orders were to attack the invaders on the march, and not when laagered;
and on the occasion of this last and greatest battle their deficiency in ..."
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