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Buller and attacked
In 1901, in his articles on the conduct of the war, he attacked the British commander, Sir Redvers Henry Buller, which contributed to Buller's sacking.

Buller and Louis
However, the nadir of Black Week was the Battle of Colenso on 15 December where 21, 000 British troops commanded by Buller himself, attempted to cross the Tugela River to relieve Ladysmith where 8, 000 Transvaal Boers, under the command of Louis Botha, were awaiting them.
Louis Buller ( Louie ) Gohmert, Jr. ( born August 18, 1953 ) is an American politician and current Republican U. S. Representative from Texas's 1st congressional district.
* 19 – 24 January-Battle of Spionkop Boer forces under the command of Louis Botha defeat the British forces under the command of Redvers Buller
* 5 February-Battle of Val Krantz-British forces under the command of Redvers Henry Buller attack Boer forces under the command of Louis Botha and loses
* Section 8, “ Superpox ”, the last section, begins with a description of an attempt at replication of the Jackson-Ramshaw virus at a lab at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine by Mark Buller working for USAMRIID.

Buller and again
Like Buller, Roberts first intended to attack directly along the Cape Town – Pretoria railway but, again like Buller, was forced to relieve the beleaguered garrisons.

Buller and on
However, on 26 February, after much deliberation, Buller used all his forces in one all-out attack for the first time and at last succeeded in forcing a crossing of the Tugela, and defeated Botha's outnumbered forces north of Colenso.
Roberts, joined by troops from Natal under Buller, advanced against them, and broke their last defensive position at Bergendal on 26 August.
The Mount Buller Interschools Event claims to be the largest interdisciplinary snow-sports event on earth.
Having crossed the river to the west bank below Landreast, the canal should have continued on that bank to reach West Looe, but there were problems with obtaining land from a Mr. Eliot, and so the route re-crossed the river and ran through land provided by John Buller, at no cost to the company.
* Sir Redvers Buller, on the first committee
da Silva and Birch had written some new material and released a new album Looking in the Shadows on DGC Records and Rough Trade Records in 1996, produced by Britpop producer Ed Buller ( who had previously worked with Suede and Pulp ).
By the time the compilation was released in 1997, the Britpop movement was noticeably waning in popularity, and the band had decided to split with long-time producer Ed Buller before commencing work on their follow-up to Coming Up.
Browder and Buller moved with their two children to Australia during the production of Farscape ( 1999 – 2003 ), on which Browder starred as American astronaut John Crichton.
Buller played several guest roles on the show.
Pat O ' Dea, while he was the mayor for the Buller District, suggested in 2000 that Native Forest Action ( NFA ) had spiked trees during a direct action campaign against native forest logging on the West Coast.
Buller got him a job as Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters on 24 August 1895, writing a new cavalry training manual ( in practice extensively assisted by Captain Douglas Haig ).
After the war, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of 1st Army Corps at Aldershot Command, in succession to Buller, from 15 September 1902, and, having been given General Officer Commanding-in-Chief status at Aldershot on 1 June 1905 and promoted to full general on 12 February 1907, he became, on the recommendation of Esher, Inspector-General of the Army on 21 December 1907.
The discovery of the Mountain Pygmy-possum, < em > Burramys parvus </ em > on Mount Buller, Victoria.
Austrian taxidermist Andreas Reischek took 212 pairs as specimens for the natural history museum in Vienna over a period of 10 years, while New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller collected 18 on just one of several expeditions to the Rimutaka Ranges in 1883.
As a member of the " Conversazione Society ", better known as the Cambridge Apostles, a society established in 1820 for the purposes of discussion on social and literary questions by a few young men attracted to each other by a common taste for literature and speculation, he was associated with Charles Buller, Frederick Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, Monckton Milnes, Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson.
An eager reformer and a friend of John Stuart Mill, Buller voted for the Great Reform Bill, favoured other progressive measures, and presided over the committee on the state of the records and the one appointed to inquire into the state of election law in Ireland in 1836.
For a long time it was believed that Buller wrote Lord Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America.
Buller finally broke the siege on 28 February 1900 after defeating the Boers by using close cooperation between his infantry and artillery.
The area round Mansfield named as Banbury was also the location of the novel The Far Country by Nevil Shute which featured logging on Mount Buller and previous forest fires, which having swept through Howqua obliterated almost all traces of a former settlement.

Buller and 5
At 16 William junior joined a law firm as a clerk with Buller, Lewis and Gully, where he received about 5 years training.
The 1, 070 metre long Howqua Poma at Mount Buller, Australia probably set a ski lift speed record by operating at an astonishing 6. 5 metres a second when it was built in 1964, but the ensuing chaos resulted in it being restricted to 4 m / s in later years.
Eventually, with the Tugela in flood, preventing Buller from giving any support, some younger leaders persuaded Joubert to order a storming attempt on the night of 5 January 1900, before another relief attempt could be made.
Buller made two further attempts to cross the river, this time some 20 km upstream of Colenso-at Spioenkop between 20 and 24 January 1900 and at Vaalkrans between 5 and 7 February 1900.
Sir Arthur William Buller ( 5 September 1808 – 30 April 1869 ) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, who in his early career served as head of a commission of inquiry into education reform in Lower Canada.

Buller and February
By the 28 February, Ladysmith had finally been relieved by a force under the command of General Redvers Buller.
On his fourth attempt, Buller was victorious in the Battle of the Tugela Heights, lifting the siege on 28 February 1900.
Eventually, Buller broke through the Boer positions on 27 February.

Buller and at
General Redvers Henry Buller ( pictured ) launched an offensive against the Boers in the early phases of the war, but after a series of defeats, culminating at Battle of Colenso | Colenso, he was replaced by Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Earl Roberts
It was at this point that General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, a much respected commander, arrived in South Africa with major British reinforcements ( including an army corps of three divisions ).
Leaving Buller in command in Natal, Roberts massed his main force near the Orange River and along the Western Railway behind Methuen's force at the Modder River, and prepared to make a wide outflanking move to relieve Kimberley.
The first ski lift went into service at Mount Buller in 1949, and in the same year rope tow was installed at Falls Creek.
Browder met his wife, actress Francesca Buller, while studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
On 27 May 1990, the Stone Roses performed at Spike Island in Widnes, Cheshire, supported by DJs Frankie Knuckles, Phonso Buller, Dave Haslam, and Dave Booth.
Three geographically isolated populations are known to exist, at Mount Buller ( Victoria ) ( discovered in 1996 < ref > Heinze, D. & Williams, L. ( 1998 ).
A bust of Buller is in Westminster Abbey, and another was unveiled at Liskeard in 1905.
Methuen and 1st Division were assigned to the relief of Kimberley, but the situation at Ladysmith deteriorated, and Buller diverted Hildyard ’ s 2nd Brigade and Long ’ s artillery to that sector.
Three attempts by General Sir Redvers Buller to break the siege resulted in defeat for the British forces at the battles of Colenso, Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz.
Ski lifts operate year-round at Mount Buller allowing bikers to easily get to the top of downhill mountain biking runs.
Buller was born at the Wesleyan mission, Newark at Pakanae in the Hokianga, the son of a Cornish missionary, Rev.
Buller helped establish the scientific display in the New Zealand Court at the World's Fair in Paris and was decorated with the Officer of the Legion of Honour by the President of France in November 1889.
The headwaters of the Goulburn River rise in the western end of the Victoria Alps, near Mount Buller making it the longest river in Victoria at.
* Fox River, Buller runs from the Paparoa Range, through the Paparoa National Park and into the Tasman Sea at Woodpecker Bay.
The Gowan River flows out of the lake at this point, thus making the lake one of the sources of the Buller River system.

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