Lot 373
Military folded letter, Grey Town to Bolo Camp: 1878 (6 Mar.), folded letter from Commandant Chas. D. Griffith in Grey Town carried east 12 miles by mounted orderly to Commandant J. Frost at Bolo Camp. Highly unusual, ex. Dillaway.
Estimate $200 - 300
The letter refers to one of the major actions of the Ninth Frontier War and confirms "No news yet from Waterkloof." Two days earlier under the command of Special Commissioner W. B. Chalmers, some 1700 troops had advanced into the area and surrounded the kraal of Chief Maqoma of the Ngqika tribe.
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