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Swanepoel said the NP would not revert back to "the Laager", and would continue to stay in mainstream politics, despite arguments to the contrary.
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Laager plan (both primary and alternate laager sites).
FM 90-4 Chapter 3 United States Army 1987
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Laager after laager during those weary months was similarly surprised, and waggons and oxen and horses beyond all counting were captured, till apparently scarcely a horse or hoof or pair of heels was left on all the far-reaching veldt.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry
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British and Canadians also refused in spite of threats, and ill-treatment, and all were sent on to Celle Laager, the main punishment camp.
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A few "compliments" were jerked at the Kamfers Dam Laager; the Boers were made to feel that they had a foeman to deal with worthy of their lead.
The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan
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Heathen, making sport of "the Cross" and drinking Laager Beer.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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Nietzsche loathed Laager Beer, and "the Cross" _burnt_ day and night in his tormented, Dionysian soul.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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Boer sympathies, at present sequestered beneath the yellow flag of the town gaol for their too incautious manifestation; while his wife and young family were inhabitants of the Women's Laager.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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They parted at the Women's Laager, and as the khâki bicycle grew small in the distance, Saxham realised with a shock that he was happy, that life had suddenly become sweet, and opened out anew before him in a vista, not of shining promise, but with one golden gleam of hope in it, to a man freed by the force of Will from the bondage of the accursed liquor-thirst.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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We hear in the course of things from a Kaffir despatch-runner that she's stayin 'in a hotel of sorts at Tweipans, where Brounckers has had his headquarters since he shifted Chief Laager from Geitfontein.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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