Crossword-Solution: PHILIPPOLIS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Day after day Guy drove on along the uncertain roads, past queer outlying towns of white wooden houses--Cradock, and Middelburg, and Colesberg, and others--till they crossed at last the boundary of Orange River into the Free State, and halted for a while in the main street of Philippolis.

Immediately after my arrival, General Jacobs, of Fauresmith, and Commandant Hertzog,[21] of Philippolis, brought the news to me that troops were marching on us from Belmont Station.

Such was the case with the men from Fauresmith and Jacobsdal, and with a large proportion of the commandos from Philippolis, Smithfield, Wepener, and Bloemfontein.

After my men had gone northwards, those burghers of Hoopstad, Jacobsdal, Fauresmith, Philippolis, Bethulie, Smithfield, Rouxville, Wepener, Bloemfontein and the southern part of Ladybrand, who had laid down their arms and remained at home between the beginning of March and the end of May, were left undisturbed by Lord Roberts--so far as their private liberty was concerned.

The last-named had been appointed in the place of Commandant Olivier, who had been taken prisoner at Winburg.[70] I had appointed Judge Hertzog as a second Vice-Commander-in-Chief, to carry out the same work in the districts of Fauresmith, Philippolis and Jacobsdal.