What is "laagers"

Usage examples of "laagers".

From the summit a fire, which for some days could not be localised by the Boers, was opened upon their laagers, which had to be shifted in consequence.

A guard was kept upon the frontier to prevent the return of refugees and the smuggling of ammunition, while General Kitchener, the brother of the Sirdar, broke up a few small Boer laagers in the neighbourhood of Lydenburg.

Government laagers until such time as the guerilla warfare now being carried on will admit of their returning safely to their homes.

Grenfell, who commanded the force, broke up several laagers, and captured a number of prisoners, operations in which he was much assisted by Colenbrander and his men.

The precise location of the Boer laagers does not appear to have been known, but it was certain that a considerable number of them were scattered about thirty miles or so to the west of Klerksdorp and the Schoonspruit line.