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This video is an account of the Battle of Magersfontein, during the Second Anglo-Boer War, by an officer of The Black Watch, Christian Malise Hore-Ruthven. This battle was one of the greatest catastrophes in Scottish military history, and Hore-Ruthven's account illustrates the sheer extent of the mental and physical suffering endured by the Highland Brigade.
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