. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . 1.—Drum and Fife Bund2.—Ambulance Corps 3.—Encampment4. —At the Butts. D EFENCE CHAPTER XXII Ar/^ed Forces [From Military Report on Natal, J909] ARLY in 1855 the first locally-raised force was formedof volunteers from the scattered pioneers of theyoung Colony ; in the same year this force sawservice in the pursuit of the Bushmen who hadswooped down from the Drakensberg Mountainsand looted cattle. The following year it was sentwith a body of Kaffirs to the southern border ofthe Colony, against a refractory chief named year
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . 1.—Drum and Fife Bund2.—Ambulance Corps 3.—Encampment4. —At the Butts. D EFENCE CHAPTER XXII Ar/^ed Forces [From Military Report on Natal, J909] ARLY in 1855 the first locally-raised force was formedof volunteers from the scattered pioneers of theyoung Colony ; in the same year this force sawservice in the pursuit of the Bushmen who hadswooped down from the Drakensberg Mountainsand looted cattle. The following year it was sentwith a body of Kaffirs to the southern border ofthe Colony, against a refractory chief named year 1858 witnessed the despatch, against thechief Matyan. of a punitive expedition, composed ofthe Natal Carbineers (the force raised in 1855),frontier guards, a small party of Boers, and 500Kaffirs. In 1861 the volunteers, in conjunction withHer Majestys regular forces, guarded the borderagainst a threatened invasion by a powerful Zuluarmy, and in 1865, during the wars between theOrange Free State and the Basutos, assisted theImperial troops in effectually stopping the inroadsof the latter into Natal. In 1863 and 1865 laws relat
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