Admiralty, the British, utmost credit due to its efforts in transporting troops and material,86.American colonies, the, action of, in the old wars contrasted with colonial action of to-day,77.Army Reserve, 25,000 men called out,32.Army Service Corps, the,103.Australasia and the war,75.Australia supplies wheat to the Transvaal,16.Barbed-Wire obstacles at battle of Elandslaagte,54;defences at Magersfontein,163.Barter's, Colonel, brave deed at Modder River,158.Barton, Major-General, advances to Chieveley,217.Beira, port of,11.Belmont, battle of,148-150.Bethlehem,15.Biggarsberg Range,39,48.Black week of the war for the British,168.Bloemfontein,11;occupied by the British,305.Boers, original plan of campaign of the,9,26;helped by nature of the country,21;their decided superiority in numbers at the beginning of hostilities,25,36;ultimatum, the,31;guns, position of, betrayed by their flashes,52;procrastination,58,123,129;forces, estimation of the,116;trenches and tactics,133,144,163;losses in battle, difficulty of arriving at the truth respecting,202.Bonaparte,111.Brabant, General,311.British Army, first order to mobilize issued,32;gallantry and skill of the, at the opening of the campaign,27;officers' "stupidity," Captain Mahan's striking question on it,201.British Columbia and the war,77.British Cabinet decides to send 2,000 men to Natal,29.British Navy and transport service, splendid tribute to,86et seq.Buffalo River,37,40.Buller, General Sir Redvers, arrives at Cape Town to take chief command,68;assumes the command in Natal,195.Buluwayo,11.Campaign, the, compared with that of 1881,117;its enormous difficulties unforeseen by the British Government and people,73;the question as to its future conduct at the time of General Buller's arrival,132.Canada and the war,75.Canadian Regiment, gallant conduct of the, at Paardeberg,289.Cape, the,4;seized by the British 1795, again in 1806,5.Cape Police, the, and the defence of Kimberley,137.Cape Route, the, may not be equal to carrying the traffic of the Suez Canal in war time,100.Cattle and sheep the chief wealth of the Boer farmers,8.Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph,28;and the Colonies,83.Clark, Rear-Admiral Bouverie, great credit due to, as Director of Transports,86.Clements, General, takes Colesberg,176.Clery, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Francis,195.Codrington, Colonel, at Modder River battle,156.Colenso, effect of reverses at,81;battle of,220-232;occupied by Buller's army, February 19,296.Colesberg taken by General Clements,176.Colonial Government of Natal calls for Imperial aid,29.Colonies, the, and the transports,71;splendid response of the,74et seq."Communications dominate war,"73.Congestion at docks, wharves, and railroads in South Africa and its cause,99.Country, its nature favours defence,20.Cronje, General, and President Kruger, anecdote of,122;recalled from Kimberley to oppose Methuen's advance,147;leaves his entrenchments at Magersfontein, and commences his retreat towards Bloemfontein,275;surrounded and captured at Paardeberg,275-291De Aar Junction, strategic importance of,11,33,104."Defence exhausts quicker than offence,"44.Delagoa Bay, a thorn in the side of the British,3.Denniss, Lieut., gallant conduct and death of—"not in vain,"245.Devonshire Regiment, the, "save Ladysmith,"247.Diaz, Bartholomew,3.Driefontein, battle of,304.Dundee,22;battle of Talana Hill, near,43.Dundonald, Lord, enters Ladysmith,303.Durban,9.Dutch settle at the Cape in 1652,4.East London,11.Elandslaagte, occupied by the Boers,39,47;battle of, described,49-59.Enslin,161.Federation, imperial, a most momentous fact in the world's history,77.Forte, men of the cruiser, under Captain Jones, bombard kopjes near Colenso,217.Free State, the, at the commencement of hostilities,35.French, General, his first move against the enemy at Elandslaagte,49;leaves Ladysmith by the last train out,68;at Naauwport and Colesberg,169,173;tribute to his skill,175,176;relieves Kimberley,266-274; joins in the pursuit of Cronje to Paardeberg,275.French settlers at the Cape, 1686,4.Frere, Buller concentrates at,216."Front attack a desperate business,"59.Gama, Vasco da,3.Gatacre, General, and the surprise at Stormberg,171.Glencoe,22,30,38.Graspan,144;battle of,150-152.Great Britain unprepared and unwilling for war,31;no other nation has or will have such colonial responsibilities and experience,91.Great Trek, the,5.Hex River Pass,26.Highland Brigade, the, at Magersfontein,164-168.Hildyard, General, attacks Beacon Hill,208.Hlangwane occupied by Buller's army, February 19,294.Horse-sickness,13,97.Horses and mules, enormous numbers imported for the war in South Africa,98.Imperial Federation, the dream of, converted into "a concrete and most pregnant fact" by Paul Kruger's Ultimatum,74;"A most momentous fact in the World's History,"77.Imperial Government, the, and the colonies,76,80.Imperial Light Horse, the, General White's tribute to,242.India, despatch of troops from,30;arrival of the first transports from,35,84.Johannesburg,11;occupied by Lord Roberts, May 31,314.Jones, Digby, Lieutenant, gallant conduct and death of—"not in vain,"245.Jones, Captain, of the cruiserForte, at Colenso,217.Joubert, General, of French descent,4;reports engagement at Dundee,39;attacks Ladysmith, November 9,195;Boer estimate of,197.Kekewich, Lieut.-Col., and the defence of Kimberley,136-141.Kimberley,33,106;its defence,136-141;relief of, by General French,266.Kitchener, General Lord, arrives with Lord Roberts at Cape Town, January 10, 1900,232;fights a succession of rearguard actions with Cronje,275et seq.Klip River, the,20.Koch, General,39;occupies Elandslaagte,48.Koorn Spruit, reverse at,313.Kruger, President,28;his ultimatum converts the dream of Imperial Federation into a "most pregnant fact,"74;anecdote of his "roaring" and "bellowing,"122;and Joubert,196.Ladysmith,15,20,22;causes which led to its investment,27;Sir George White takes command at,36;all communications with, cut off November 2,67;decisive part played by, in the campaign,111;importance of its tenure on the events of the campaign,178;siege of,192et seq.;successful sorties by the British against Gun Hill and Surprise Hill,215;Boer attack on Cæsar's Camp and Wagon Hill,239;relief of, by General Buller,303.Lambton, Captain, and the naval guns,190.Landman's Drift,40.Macdonald, General Hector,268;at Paardeberg,289.Mafeking,33,106;heroic endurance,112;importance of its defence,123;Kruger refuses to allow Cronje to storm it,122.Magersfontein,81;battle of,162-167.Majuba Day, Cronje surrenders on,289.Majuba Hill,18,22.Methuen, General Lord, appointed commander of the British corps at Orange River bridge,109;and the battle of Belmont,148-150;and the battle of Graspan,150-152;and Modder River battle,152-161;and the battle of Magersfontein,162-167.Meyer, Commandant Lucas,39.Milner, Sir Alfred,28.Modder River, battle of,152-161.Modern arms, power of, greatly exaggerated,159,161.Mooi River, the,19.Naauwport Junction,33,104.Napoleon,184,186.Natal,9;the rivers of,21;opening of the campaign in,28;campaign from the investment of Ladysmith through the battle of Colenso,177et seq.Naval brigade with guns from thePowerfulgets into Ladysmith,66.Nelson's dictum on "five minutes of delay,"58,130.Newcastle occupied by the Boers38.New Zealand and the war,75.Nicholson's Nek, the disaster at63-65.Orange Free State, its neutrality possibly more dangerous to the British than its hostility,14.Orange River, strategic importance of the,113.Origin of the two Boer states,6.Over-sea transport of troops, &c., English system described,92.Paardeberg,14,20;Cronje's fight and surrender at,281-221.Park, Colonel, gallant conduct of,246.Physical conditions of South Africa,6.Pieter's Hill, battle of,302.Plevna,187.Port Elizabeth,11.Portuguese East Africa,3.Powell, Colonel Baden-, and Kruger,122.Powerful, naval brigade from the cruiser, reaches Ladysmith with long-range guns "in the nick of time,"65.Pretoria,11; occupied by Lord Roberts June 5,314.Reddersburg, reverse at, Reitz, Secretary, anecdote of,121."Reverses always to be expected in war,"313.Rhodesia,11.Rietfontein, White's action at,60.Roberts, General Lord,15;leaves England December 23, arrives at Cape Town January 10,232;arrives at Modder Camp February 9,267;enters Bloemfontein March 13,305;occupies Johannesburg,314;occupies Pretoria June 4,314.Scott, Captain Percy, and the naval brigade guns,67.Smith's Nek,40.South African colonies, the, and the war,83;seaports, importance of to British,9.Spion Kop, battle of,249-265.Springfontein,11,12.Spytfontein,164.Steevens' description of the retreat of the Dundee column,60;quoted,103,115,118.Stormberg,33,104;British reverse at,168-172."Stupidity" of British officers, "where has it placed Great Britain among the nations of the earth?"201.Suez Canal,2;traffic of the, in war time, a warning,100.Symons, General Sir Penn, his views as to the force needed,29;takes command at Dundee,36;wounded,44;tribute to,57;death of,63,69.Talana Hill described,40;assault of by British,43;the battle of,43.Temper, the, which wins in war,128.Transports and the colonies,71;British arrangements, "a triumph of organisation,"86.Transvaal, the, imports wheat from Australia;poorness of the country in all but gold,16;had for some years prepared for war,35.Tugela River, the,19;Buller's first attempt to pass the,219;passage of the, by Buller's army and capture of Pieter's Hill,300.Ultimatum presented by the Transvaal Government,34,35.United Kingdom's, the, effort, gigantic, unprecedented and unsurpassed in its success in military history,85.United States, expansion of the, and Imperial Federation "secondary in importance to nothing contemporaneous,"80.Vaal Krantz, battle of,264.Volunteers, the Natal Volunteers called out,31.War, theatre of the, described,1-28;was not desired by the British,31;initiated by the Transvaal at 5P.M., October 11, 1899,34;effect of the, in uniting the Empire,75.Warren, Lieut.-General Sir Charles, and Spion Kop,249-265.Wauchope, General, killed at Magersfontein,164-168.Weapons, modern, effect of, perhaps over-estimated,59.Wessels at Kimberley,124.Western frontier, the,102.White, General Sir George, takes the Natal command,31;takes command at Ladysmith,36;tribute to,69;gazetted Governor of Gibraltar,103;and the siege of Ladysmith,191.Wilkinson, Spencer, quoted,69.Yule, General, succeeds General Symons,46,57;his famous retreat,59.Zandspruit,37.
Admiralty, the British, utmost credit due to its efforts in transporting troops and material,86.American colonies, the, action of, in the old wars contrasted with colonial action of to-day,77.Army Reserve, 25,000 men called out,32.Army Service Corps, the,103.Australasia and the war,75.Australia supplies wheat to the Transvaal,16.
Barbed-Wire obstacles at battle of Elandslaagte,54;defences at Magersfontein,163.Barter's, Colonel, brave deed at Modder River,158.Barton, Major-General, advances to Chieveley,217.Beira, port of,11.Belmont, battle of,148-150.Bethlehem,15.Biggarsberg Range,39,48.Black week of the war for the British,168.Bloemfontein,11;occupied by the British,305.Boers, original plan of campaign of the,9,26;helped by nature of the country,21;their decided superiority in numbers at the beginning of hostilities,25,36;ultimatum, the,31;guns, position of, betrayed by their flashes,52;procrastination,58,123,129;forces, estimation of the,116;trenches and tactics,133,144,163;losses in battle, difficulty of arriving at the truth respecting,202.Bonaparte,111.Brabant, General,311.British Army, first order to mobilize issued,32;gallantry and skill of the, at the opening of the campaign,27;officers' "stupidity," Captain Mahan's striking question on it,201.British Columbia and the war,77.British Cabinet decides to send 2,000 men to Natal,29.British Navy and transport service, splendid tribute to,86et seq.Buffalo River,37,40.Buller, General Sir Redvers, arrives at Cape Town to take chief command,68;assumes the command in Natal,195.Buluwayo,11.
Campaign, the, compared with that of 1881,117;its enormous difficulties unforeseen by the British Government and people,73;the question as to its future conduct at the time of General Buller's arrival,132.Canada and the war,75.Canadian Regiment, gallant conduct of the, at Paardeberg,289.Cape, the,4;seized by the British 1795, again in 1806,5.Cape Police, the, and the defence of Kimberley,137.Cape Route, the, may not be equal to carrying the traffic of the Suez Canal in war time,100.Cattle and sheep the chief wealth of the Boer farmers,8.Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph,28;and the Colonies,83.Clark, Rear-Admiral Bouverie, great credit due to, as Director of Transports,86.Clements, General, takes Colesberg,176.Clery, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Francis,195.Codrington, Colonel, at Modder River battle,156.Colenso, effect of reverses at,81;battle of,220-232;occupied by Buller's army, February 19,296.Colesberg taken by General Clements,176.Colonial Government of Natal calls for Imperial aid,29.Colonies, the, and the transports,71;splendid response of the,74et seq."Communications dominate war,"73.Congestion at docks, wharves, and railroads in South Africa and its cause,99.Country, its nature favours defence,20.Cronje, General, and President Kruger, anecdote of,122;recalled from Kimberley to oppose Methuen's advance,147;leaves his entrenchments at Magersfontein, and commences his retreat towards Bloemfontein,275;surrounded and captured at Paardeberg,275-291
De Aar Junction, strategic importance of,11,33,104."Defence exhausts quicker than offence,"44.Delagoa Bay, a thorn in the side of the British,3.Denniss, Lieut., gallant conduct and death of—"not in vain,"245.Devonshire Regiment, the, "save Ladysmith,"247.Diaz, Bartholomew,3.Driefontein, battle of,304.Dundee,22;battle of Talana Hill, near,43.Dundonald, Lord, enters Ladysmith,303.Durban,9.Dutch settle at the Cape in 1652,4.
East London,11.Elandslaagte, occupied by the Boers,39,47;battle of, described,49-59.Enslin,161.
Federation, imperial, a most momentous fact in the world's history,77.Forte, men of the cruiser, under Captain Jones, bombard kopjes near Colenso,217.Free State, the, at the commencement of hostilities,35.French, General, his first move against the enemy at Elandslaagte,49;leaves Ladysmith by the last train out,68;at Naauwport and Colesberg,169,173;tribute to his skill,175,176;relieves Kimberley,266-274; joins in the pursuit of Cronje to Paardeberg,275.French settlers at the Cape, 1686,4.Frere, Buller concentrates at,216."Front attack a desperate business,"59.
Gama, Vasco da,3.Gatacre, General, and the surprise at Stormberg,171.Glencoe,22,30,38.Graspan,144;battle of,150-152.Great Britain unprepared and unwilling for war,31;no other nation has or will have such colonial responsibilities and experience,91.Great Trek, the,5.
Hex River Pass,26.Highland Brigade, the, at Magersfontein,164-168.Hildyard, General, attacks Beacon Hill,208.Hlangwane occupied by Buller's army, February 19,294.Horse-sickness,13,97.Horses and mules, enormous numbers imported for the war in South Africa,98.
Imperial Federation, the dream of, converted into "a concrete and most pregnant fact" by Paul Kruger's Ultimatum,74;"A most momentous fact in the World's History,"77.Imperial Government, the, and the colonies,76,80.Imperial Light Horse, the, General White's tribute to,242.India, despatch of troops from,30;arrival of the first transports from,35,84.
Johannesburg,11;occupied by Lord Roberts, May 31,314.Jones, Digby, Lieutenant, gallant conduct and death of—"not in vain,"245.Jones, Captain, of the cruiserForte, at Colenso,217.Joubert, General, of French descent,4;reports engagement at Dundee,39;attacks Ladysmith, November 9,195;Boer estimate of,197.
Kekewich, Lieut.-Col., and the defence of Kimberley,136-141.Kimberley,33,106;its defence,136-141;relief of, by General French,266.Kitchener, General Lord, arrives with Lord Roberts at Cape Town, January 10, 1900,232;fights a succession of rearguard actions with Cronje,275et seq.Klip River, the,20.Koch, General,39;occupies Elandslaagte,48.Koorn Spruit, reverse at,313.Kruger, President,28;his ultimatum converts the dream of Imperial Federation into a "most pregnant fact,"74;anecdote of his "roaring" and "bellowing,"122;and Joubert,196.
Ladysmith,15,20,22;causes which led to its investment,27;Sir George White takes command at,36;all communications with, cut off November 2,67;decisive part played by, in the campaign,111;importance of its tenure on the events of the campaign,178;siege of,192et seq.;successful sorties by the British against Gun Hill and Surprise Hill,215;Boer attack on Cæsar's Camp and Wagon Hill,239;relief of, by General Buller,303.Lambton, Captain, and the naval guns,190.Landman's Drift,40.
Macdonald, General Hector,268;at Paardeberg,289.Mafeking,33,106;heroic endurance,112;importance of its defence,123;Kruger refuses to allow Cronje to storm it,122.Magersfontein,81;battle of,162-167.Majuba Day, Cronje surrenders on,289.Majuba Hill,18,22.Methuen, General Lord, appointed commander of the British corps at Orange River bridge,109;and the battle of Belmont,148-150;and the battle of Graspan,150-152;and Modder River battle,152-161;and the battle of Magersfontein,162-167.Meyer, Commandant Lucas,39.Milner, Sir Alfred,28.Modder River, battle of,152-161.Modern arms, power of, greatly exaggerated,159,161.Mooi River, the,19.
Naauwport Junction,33,104.Napoleon,184,186.Natal,9;the rivers of,21;opening of the campaign in,28;campaign from the investment of Ladysmith through the battle of Colenso,177et seq.Naval brigade with guns from thePowerfulgets into Ladysmith,66.Nelson's dictum on "five minutes of delay,"58,130.Newcastle occupied by the Boers38.New Zealand and the war,75.Nicholson's Nek, the disaster at63-65.
Orange Free State, its neutrality possibly more dangerous to the British than its hostility,14.Orange River, strategic importance of the,113.Origin of the two Boer states,6.Over-sea transport of troops, &c., English system described,92.
Paardeberg,14,20;Cronje's fight and surrender at,281-221.Park, Colonel, gallant conduct of,246.Physical conditions of South Africa,6.Pieter's Hill, battle of,302.Plevna,187.Port Elizabeth,11.Portuguese East Africa,3.Powell, Colonel Baden-, and Kruger,122.Powerful, naval brigade from the cruiser, reaches Ladysmith with long-range guns "in the nick of time,"65.Pretoria,11; occupied by Lord Roberts June 5,314.
Reddersburg, reverse at, Reitz, Secretary, anecdote of,121."Reverses always to be expected in war,"313.Rhodesia,11.Rietfontein, White's action at,60.Roberts, General Lord,15;leaves England December 23, arrives at Cape Town January 10,232;arrives at Modder Camp February 9,267;enters Bloemfontein March 13,305;occupies Johannesburg,314;occupies Pretoria June 4,314.
Scott, Captain Percy, and the naval brigade guns,67.Smith's Nek,40.South African colonies, the, and the war,83;seaports, importance of to British,9.Spion Kop, battle of,249-265.Springfontein,11,12.Spytfontein,164.Steevens' description of the retreat of the Dundee column,60;quoted,103,115,118.Stormberg,33,104;British reverse at,168-172."Stupidity" of British officers, "where has it placed Great Britain among the nations of the earth?"201.Suez Canal,2;traffic of the, in war time, a warning,100.Symons, General Sir Penn, his views as to the force needed,29;takes command at Dundee,36;wounded,44;tribute to,57;death of,63,69.
Talana Hill described,40;assault of by British,43;the battle of,43.Temper, the, which wins in war,128.Transports and the colonies,71;British arrangements, "a triumph of organisation,"86.Transvaal, the, imports wheat from Australia;poorness of the country in all but gold,16;had for some years prepared for war,35.Tugela River, the,19;Buller's first attempt to pass the,219;passage of the, by Buller's army and capture of Pieter's Hill,300.
Ultimatum presented by the Transvaal Government,34,35.United Kingdom's, the, effort, gigantic, unprecedented and unsurpassed in its success in military history,85.United States, expansion of the, and Imperial Federation "secondary in importance to nothing contemporaneous,"80.
Vaal Krantz, battle of,264.Volunteers, the Natal Volunteers called out,31.
War, theatre of the, described,1-28;was not desired by the British,31;initiated by the Transvaal at 5P.M., October 11, 1899,34;effect of the, in uniting the Empire,75.Warren, Lieut.-General Sir Charles, and Spion Kop,249-265.Wauchope, General, killed at Magersfontein,164-168.Weapons, modern, effect of, perhaps over-estimated,59.Wessels at Kimberley,124.Western frontier, the,102.White, General Sir George, takes the Natal command,31;takes command at Ladysmith,36;tribute to,69;gazetted Governor of Gibraltar,103;and the siege of Ladysmith,191.Wilkinson, Spencer, quoted,69.
Yule, General, succeeds General Symons,46,57;his famous retreat,59.
Zandspruit,37.
Footnote 1:Younghusband's "South Africa of To-day." Second Edition, 1899.(Back)
Footnote 2:"Impressions of South Africa." Third Edition, p. 291.(Back)
Footnote 3:"From Cape Town to Ladysmith," p. 79.(Back)
Footnote 4:"Lessons of the War," p. 13.(Back)
Footnote 5:More have sailed since the above information, but exact figures are wanting to the author.(Back)
Footnote 6:The distance from Southampton, the chief though not the only port of departure, to Cape Town is 5,978 miles.(Back)
Footnote 7:There may have been one or two more battalions of infantry, but I have not been able to trace such.(Back)
Footnote 8:"From Cape Town to Ladysmith," pp. 16-20.(Back)
Footnote 9:May 19, 1900.(Back)
Footnote 10:Harper's Monthly Magazine, May, 1900, p. 827.(Back)
Footnote 11:Ralph's "Toward Pretoria," p. 97.(Back)
Footnote 12:Ralph's "Toward Pretoria," p. 104.(Back)
Footnote 13:Julian Ralph, "Toward Pretoria," p. 153.(Back)
Footnote 14:LondonWeekly Times, May 18.(Back)
Footnote 15:I should greatly like here to take up my parable against those who base their calculations for the numbers and kinds of naval vessels upon the idea of "a navy for defence only"; but space and relevancy both forbid.(Back)
Footnote 16:LondonWeekly Times, June 1, 1900. Captain the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, Commander of the "Powerful," accompanied the naval guns to Ladysmith, and was there throughout the siege.(Back)
Footnote 17:LondonWeekly Times, April 27, 1900. Some other interesting siege statistics will be found in the same number.(Back)
Footnote 18:LondonTimes, June 25, 1900.(Back)
Footnote 19:Harper's Monthly Magazine, July, 1900, p. 174.(Back)
Footnote 20:The latest revised official returns of casualties now (July 18) accessible to the author are to be found in the LondonTimesof July 4, and are complete to June 30.(Back)
Footnote 21:Atkins, "Relief of Ladysmith," p. 117.(Back)
Footnote 22:Burleigh, "Natal Campaign," p. 127.(Back)
Footnote 23:Burleigh, "Natal Campaign," p. 128, 129. Atkins, "Relief of Ladysmith," p. 116.(Back)
Footnote 24:Burleigh, "Natal Campaign," p. 129.(Back)
Footnote 25:LondonWeekly Times, December 22, 1899.(Back)
Footnote 26:Four statute miles equal 7,040 yards.(Back)
Footnote 27:LondonWeekly Times, January 19, 1900. On the other hand, another correspondent who shared this view has said, "The consensus of military opinion seems to be that the ground being too rough and broken to the eastward, the chief column will try and effect a crossing far to the westward of Colenso." (Burleigh—p. 155).(Back)
Footnote 28:This "3" in the copy before me may be a misprint for "8." The LondonTimescorrespondent gives 800 yards for the rifle fire.(Back)
Footnote 29:Burleigh, "Natal Campaign," p. 240.(Back)
Footnote 30:Burleigh's "Natal Campaign," p. 410.(Back)
Footnote 31:LondonWeekly Times, February 23, 1900. In default of official reports, the author has depended chiefly upon theTimescorrespondence, and upon "Four Months Besieged," by Mr. H. H. Pearse, correspondent of theDaily News.(Back)
Footnote 32:"The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," by Captain Cecil Boyle, additional aide to General French. TheNineteenth Century, June, 1900, p. 907.(Back)
Footnote 33:Lord Roberts' telegram.(Back)
Footnote 34:LondonWeekly Times, March 23, 1900, p. ii.; also February 23, p. 114.(Back)
Footnote 35:"The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 909.(Back)
Footnote 36:See summary of a letter of Michael Davitt, whose Boer sympathies are well known, from Kroonstadt, March 31, to the DublinFreeman's Journal, given in the LondonTimes, June 25, 1900.(Back)
Footnote 37:"The Cavalry Rush to Kimberley," p. 210.(Back)
Footnote 38:LondonWeekly Times, March 23 and April 6 (p. iii). In the absence of official reports other than telegraphic summaries, the author has based his account chiefly on this authority.(Back)
Footnote 39:Bullet's telegram from Ladysmith, March 2.(Back)
Footnote 40:LondonWeekly Times, March 30, 1900.(Back)
Footnote 41:These figures are taken from a speech made by the Under Secretary of War in Parliament, June 29, 1900.(Back)