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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 14

Basutoland
Covers and Cancellation
The Basutoland Rebellion, Gun War, 1880-81
1880 (19 Nov.) letter from Charles Ross, Capt. Light Horse from Camp Ndonga including "....owing to my men not being provided with saddle bags & most of them being without horse sacks the eight days ration drawn for them for the patrol which left here on the 17th. inst has been totally destroyed...."; 1880 (19 Dec.) "field state" Colonial Forces Form for "Grays Gonubie Force" of European Cavalry stationed at Bashu Camp; 1880 (23 Dec.) letter of recommendation from A.W. Fuller, Commanding Transkai Fingo Militia1; and 1881 (2 Jan.) similar handwritten Field State sheet for Ross Light Horse at Bazia Camp. Also contemporary original panoramic photographs of the whole of Thaba Bosigo mountain, the former stronghold of Moshesh, the three join together to complete the panorama, a rare trio

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