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Chapter Twenty-Six of the author’s The Great Boer War, which Smith, Elder, & Co. published in 1900. This web version is based on the Internet Archive version digitized from an unidentified library in 2010 with funding from the Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation.

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Contents

Preface

1. The Boer Nations

2. The Cause of the Quarrel

3. The Negotiations

4. The Eve of War

5. Talana Hill

6. Elandslaagte and Rietfontein

7. Lombard’s Kop and Nicholson’s Nek

8. Lord Methuen’s Advance

9. Battle of Magersfontein

10. Battle of Stormberg

11. Battle of Colenso

12. The Dark Hour

13. Ladysmith

14. The Colesberg Operations

15. Spion Kop

16. Vaalkranz

17. Buller’s Final Advance

18. The Siege and Relief of Kimberley

19. Paardberg

20. Roberts’s Advance on Bloemfontein

21. Strategic Effects of Lord Roberts’s March

22. The Halt at Bloemfontein

23. The Clearing of the South-East

24. The Siege of Mafeking

25. The March on Pretoria

26. Diamond Hill — Rundle’s Operations

27. The Lines of Communication

28. The Halt at Pretoria

29. The End of the War

30. Some Military Lessons of the War

Appendix — Official Table of Casualties

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APPENDIX

OFFICIAL TABLE OF CASUALTIES

Casualties in the Field Force, South Africa, keporied during the Week ended September 8, 1900, and Total Casualties reported since the Beginning of the War, up to and including the Week.

Casualties in Action

Killed

Wounded

Died of Wounds in South Africa (included

in wound'd)

Missing

and prisoners

Total killed, wounded, missing-,

and prisoners

1

o

Or?

!2i i

e

o

m a

2 1

o a

1 o

qa

Officers

N.C.O.’sand men

Casualties reported during the week

Total casualties reported up to and including the week —

Belmont, Nov. 23 .

Colenso, Dec. 15

Driefontein, Mar. 10 .

Dundee, Oct. 20

Elandslaagte, Oct. 21

Enslin (Graspan), Nov. 25 .

Farquhar’s Farm and Nicholson’s Nek, Oct. 30 .

Johannesburg and Pretoria, capture of

Karee, near Brandfort, March 29

Ladysmith, Relief of, Feb. 19 to 27

3

7 5 8 5

3 6

1 22

28

50 129 58 42 50

14

58

20

20

241

21

25 43 19 11 30

6

9 34

9 91

118 2

21

2

42

23

188

220 719 342 84 169

162

244

130

152

1,530

1 2 1 3

1

1 1 3

21 20 18

6

4

10

8

11

76

21 25

43 5

1

207 2

306 4

9

925 88

11

28 71 24 44 35

9

58

42

10

114

270 1,055 402 432 223

185

1,227 188 172

1,782

635

536

THE GREAT BOER A\"AR

OFFICIAL TABLE OF CAQV ALTlBS—coiitinued

Casualties in Action

Magersfontein, Dec.

11 ... . Monte Christo (Co-

leuso), &c., Feb. 15

to 18 Modder River, Nov.

28 . Paardeberg, Feb. 16

to 27 . Potgeiter’s Drift,

Feb. 5 to 7 . Pretoria, east of,

June 11 and 12 Eeddersburg, April 3

and 4 . . . Rietfontein, Oct. 24 . Sanna’s Post, Mar. 81 Senekal, May 29 Spion Kop, &c., Jan.

17 to 24 . Stormberg, Dec. 10 . Uitval’s Nek, July 11 Willow Grange, Nov.

32 . At Ladysmitli during Investment —

Battle of Jan. 6

Other casualties At Kimberley during

Investment . At Mafeking during

Investment . Other casualties

Total casualties in action reported up to September 8 . |283

Killed

23

1

4

17

2

5 102

Wounded

9 a

149

13

66

239

23

6

10 11 15 38

250 31 16

11

164 60

36

64 799

2,683

45

8

20

74

18

16

2

6

16

7

53

7

10 417

646

180 393 1,136 326 128

33

98 121 127

1,050 51 53

287 280

15 124

1,064

Died of Wounds iu South

Africa (included

in wound'd)

152 3,865

9S

45

12,868 85

9 329

779

Missing

and

prisoners

18

1

127

108

4

2

62

5

3

397

2

408

12

347 620 186

8

41 3,606

Total killed, wounded, missing,

and prisoners

283*i 7,330*

18

16 646

1,630

OS

903

197

461

1,437

354

137

440 111 544 177

1,647 702 255

85

453 352

163

257 8,270

22,881

* Of these, 240 officers and 6,299 men have been released or have escaped, and three officers and 86 men have died in captivity.

APPENDIX

637

OFFICIAL TABLE OP CASUALTIES— continued

Other Casualties

Officers

N.C.O.’s and men

Eeported during the weekDied of disease in South Africa

Accidental deaths in South Africa . .

Invalids sent home

Total up to and including the week —

Died of disease in South Africa .....

Accidental deaths in South Africa

Invalids sent home^

Wounded

Sick

Not specified which

1 6

140 6

149 3

1,219 .

5,472 101

3,061

22,896

1,080

Abstract of losses in the Field Force, South Africa, excluding sick and wounded men still in British hospitals in South Africa.

Reported during the week —

Killed in action ........

Died of wounds in South Africa

Missing and prisoners

Died of disease in South Africa ..... Accidental deaths in South Africa ..... Sent home as invalids .......

Total

Total losses reported up to and including the week^ Killed in action ........

Died of wounds .......

Missing and prisoners (excluding those who have been recovered or have died in captivity) ....

Prisoners who have died in captivity ....

Died of disease

Accidental deaths ........

Sent home as invalids .......

Total

Total losses reported (exclusive of sick and wounded men now in British hospitals in South Africa)

2 2 1

6

28

21

42

140

6

11

237

283 85

40

3

149 ,

3

1,219 [

2,683 779

945+ 86 5,472 101 27,937t

1,782 1

38,003

39,785

+ This total probably includes a large number of men reported ' missing ' who subsequently rejoined, but whose return was not notified.

X Of these, 173 have died, 740 have been discharged from the Service as unfit, and 920 are in hospital.

...git>.Jt E*.t 2.1' ..f (IrcCTiwiA

INDEX

Abdy, Major, 115, 226, 525

Abram’s Kraal, 347

Acton Homes, 8C

Adams, Colonel Goold, 40G

Adams, of the Light Horse, 230

Adye, Colonel, 485

Adye, Major, 112, 118, 119, 121, 122

Agincourt, allusion to, 132

Airey, Colonel, 482

Airlie, Earl of, 158, 262, 317, 452

Albrecht, German Artillerist, 340

Albrecht, of the Light Horse, 228, 521

Albuera, allusion to, 147

Alderson, 348, 350

Aid worth, Colonel, 332

Aliwal, 359, 360, 389, 394

Alleman’s Pass, 447

Alma, allusion to, 132, 148, 177

Amersfoort, 492, 493

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s), 1st Battalion, 141, 142, 148, 153, 156, 308, 320, 332, 481

Arnet, of the Australians, 484

Artillery, Royal, Howitzer Batteries: (37th), 240; (61st), 249, 253, 254, 260; (65th), 331

Artillery, Royal, Mountain Batteries: (10th), 85, 106, 109, 111, 118

Artillery, Royal Field, Batteries: (2nd), 457; (4th), 236, 240, 354, 387, 462; (5th), 462; (7th), 178, 189, 191, 217, 248, 260; (8th), 469; (13th), 84, 88, 109, 114; (14th), 178, 185; (18th), 131, 143, 156, 320, 324, 372; (19th),

205, 248; (20th), 205; (21st), 62, 85, 96, 99, 109, 115, 226;

' (28th) 205, 248; (37th), 462; (38th) 469, 470; (42nd), 62, 85, 99, 106, 109, 115, 211; (53rd), 62, 85, 106, 109, 114, 225, 226; (62nd), 143, 148, 151, 156, 308, 320, 324, 372; (63rd), 178, 248, 260; (64th), 178; (66th), 178, 185: (67th), 84, 88, 109; (69th), 84, 88, 89, 109; (73rd), 248, 260; (74th), 169, 172, 203; (75th), 131, 143, 156, 320, 324, 372; (76th), 320,?31; (77th), 169,. 172, 203; (78th), 248, 260, 268, 478, 490; (79th), 174, 203, 359, 360, 457; (81st), 320, 326, 331; (82nd), 320, 331, 453; (83rd), 426; (84th), 426; (85th), 426

Artillery, Royal Horse, Batteries: (G), 151, 152, 156, 164, 202, 451; (J), 241, 243, 441, 451; (M), 420, 481; (0), 235, 236, 237,

240, 451, 477, 478; (P), 346; (Q), 374, 376, 378-381, 452; (R), 235, 236, 240; (U), 350, 374, 376, 378, 379, 381

Artillery, Volunteer, Elswick Battery, 481 Arundel, 233, 234, 245, 246, 354,

355 Asvogel Kop, 350 Atbara, Battle of, 167, 185 Australiaji Bushmen, 481, 483 Australian Contingents, 151, 235,

241, 242, 244, 344, 354, 355, 369, 390, 429, 470, 483, 484

Ava, Lord, 230

539

540

THE GREAT BOER WAR

Babington, Colonel, 202, 309

Badajos, allusion to, 263

Baden-Powell, Major-General, 59, 304, 405, 408, 412, 419, 422, 448, 481, 482, 484, 490, 504, 505

Badfontein, 498

Baird-Douglas, Colonel, 464

Bamboo Creek, 422

Bank Station, 489

Baptie, Surgeon, 187

Barberton, 500, 501

Barker, Colonel, 348

Barkly East, 233, 360

Barkly West, 386

Barter, Colonel, 157

Bartholomew, Captain, 243

Barton, General, 178, 190, 191, 204, 216, 248, 280, 289, 290, 421, 430, 431, 509

Barton’s Hill, 289

Basutoland, 357, 360, 391, 473, 502

Basutos, 13, 506

Bearcroft, Captain, of the ' Philomel,' 320

Bechuanaland, 23, 76, 128, 362, 414

Bechuanaland liiiles, 410 . Bedfordshire Kegiment, 2nd battalion, 457, 469

Beevor, of the K.A.M.C, 164

Beira, 362, 421, 422

Beit, Mr., 68

Beith, 95

Belcher, Lieutenant, 470

Belfast, 494, 495

Belmont, 130, 132-135, 137, 138, 201, 202, 311, 312, 321, 424, 535

Bentinck, Lord Charles, 407

Bergendal, 495, 497

Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal), 2nd battalion, 62, 130, 174, 203, 235, 236, 240, 481, 483

Besters, 209

Besters Station, 86

Bethany, 385, 394

Bethlehem, 434, 470-473, 477

Bethlehem Commando, 386

Bethulie, 166, 232, 233, 358, 368, 388

Bethulie Bridge, 351, 357, 891

Bethulie Commando, 174

Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, 178, 249, 433

Bevan, of the Northumberlands, 130

Biggarsberg Range, 84, 107, 361, 431, 433

Birch, Canadian Officer, 480

Bird, Special Service Officer, 59

Blackburn, of the Maf eking Defence Force, 415

Blair, of the Seaforths, 309

Blewitt, Major, 115, 226, 525

Bloemfontein, 10, 13, 47, 70, 77, 296, 324, 326, 336, 343-353, 356, 359, 362, 363, 366, 368-387, 388, 389, 395, 397, 398, 424, 427, 435, 450, 486, 518, 529, 530

Bloemfontein Conference, 47, 50, 95

Bloemfontein Railway, 165

Bloemhof, 430

Blomfield, Colonel, 256, 264

Bliicher, allusion to, 350

Blundell, of the Guards, 133

Bond’s Drift, 61

Boomplats, 13

Booth, Major, 381

Borden, Canadian Officer, 480

Border Mounted Rifles, 85, 109. 218

Border Regiment, 1st battalion, 178, 180, 248, 481

Boshof, 137, 387, 427, 458, 462, 505

Bosley, Sergeant, 226

Botha, Christian and Louis, 216. 259, 263,400, 401, 429,430, 438, 440, 446, 448-451,476, 479,487, 491, 493, 498, 501, 502, 508

Botha, Commandant, 127, 302

Botha’s Pass, 96, 446

Brabant, General, 209, 353, 359361, 389, 391, 393, 394, 401, 426, 430, 445, 456, 457, 469

Brabant’s Horse, 359, 360, 391, 469

Brabazon, Colonel, 241, 402

Brakfontein, 267-269, 272, 296, 483

Brandfort, 333, 373, 427, 504, 535

Bridle Drift, 179, 180, 190

British Bechuanaland, see Bechuanaland

British South Africa Police, 407, 409

INDEX

541

Broadwood, General, 314, 330, 375377, 380, 381, 401, 42(;, 452, 471473, 484, 487, 488, 489

Brocldehurst, Colonel, 209, 389,499

Bronkhorst Spruit, 18, 455, 476

Brooke, Colonel, 182

Brooke, Major, 507

Bryce, James, 21

Budworth, Captain, 470

Buffalo River, 86

Bulawayo, 414, 422, 423

Bulfontein, 504

Buller, General Sir Eedvers, V.C , 167, 168, 175-178, 183, 188, 189, 198, 200, 204, 205, 217, 221-223, 231, 234, 247, 249, 255, 258, 265, 266, 270-273, 277-280, 282, 288, 291, 293-297, 341, 361, 413, 431-434, 446-448,455,468,469, 480, 492-495, 497-500

Bullock, Colonel, 188, 468

Buhvana, 206-208, 226, 291

Bulwana Plain, 229

Burghersdorp, 357

Burleigh, Mr. Bennet, 519

Burmese Mounted Infantry, 344, 376, 380

Burnham, the Scout, 439

Burn-Murdoch, Colonel, 279, 361, 389

Bushman’s Kop, 381

Butcher, Major, 4th E.F.A., 354, 355, 387

Byrne, Private, V.C, 356

Cabul, 424

Cffisar’s Camp, 207, 210, 211, 242-

226, 229, 295, 496 Camberley, 183 Cameron Highlanders (Queen’s

Own), 1st battalion, 384, 426,

443, 473 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles),

2nd battalion, 178, 249, 259,

201, 269, 291 Campbell, Mr. W. Y., 32 Canadian Contingent, 151, 201,

320, 329, 331, 337-339, 369,

388, 399, 401,421, 426, 443,456,

468, 476, 479, 483, 485, 507, 519 Candahar, 424

Cannon Kopje, 409

Cape Colony, 4, 13, 15, 17, 27, 65,

127, 166, 232, 300 Cape Mounted Eitles, 169, 359, 391 Cape Police, 128, 203, 204, 301,

304, 318, 358, 359, 420 Cape Town, 4, 48, 53, 69, 77, 166,

167, 217, 307, 339, 340, 422,

446, 505, 530 Carleton, Colonel, 111, 118-122 Carlisle, Lieutenant, 250 Carlyle, cited, 24 Carnarvon District, 360 Carnegie, Captain, 225 Carolina, 493 Caroline Commando, 258 Carrington, General, 390, 421,

483, 484 Carter, Colonel, 245, 354 Castletown, Lord, 401 Cecil, Lord Edward, 59, 406 Ceylon Contingent. 344, 369 Chamberlain, Mr., 46, 50, 53, 55, 65 Charlemagne, allusion to, 521 Charlestown, 80 Chaucer, cited, 311 Chermside, General, 320, 335, 372,

373, 385, 389, 394, 395, 397, 401,

426, 427 Chesham, Lord, 387, 462 Cheshire Regiment, 2nd battalion,

320, 372, 426 Chester-Mast e Captain, 380 Chieveley, 176, 177, 179, 183, 204,

214 Childe, Major, 254 Chisholm, Colonel, 97, 102 107,

223, 202 Chlum, allusion to, 157 Christiana, 430, 434 Churchill, Winston, 215, 260, 287 Cingolo Hill, 279, 280 City Imperial Volunteers, 321, 344,

426, 437, 443, 453, 467, 470,

487, 503 Clements, General, 241-246, 307,

341, 354-356, 359, 361, 457, 469-

473, 506, 509 Clery, General, 188, 189, 248, 278,

301, 389, 433, 492, 493 Clochlan, 450

542

THE GREAT BOER WAR

Cloughlan, of the Locomotive Dejpartment, 413

Codrington, Colonel, 146, 161, 372

Coke, General, 249, 251, 253, 258, 289, 492

Coldstream Guards, 1st battalion, 131, 133, 146, 148, 157, 158, 160, 161, 442, 453, 454; 2nd battalion, 131, 133, 148, 157, 158, 160, 442, 453, 454

Colenso, 85, 175-194, 175, 179, 184, 186, 190, 196, 198, 204, 213, 214, 222, 232, 247, 249, 271, 277, 278, 281-283, 289, 293, 296, 330, 429, 447, 454, 468, 477, 506, 517, 526, 535, 536

Colenso Bridge, 112, 361

Coleridge, Major, 146

Colesberg, 130, 166, 167, 200, 232, 247, 307, 312, 317. 322, 336, 341, 343, 353, 355, 357

Coleskop, 240, 245

Colvile, General, 320, 321, 327, 877, 378, 381, 382, 389, 445, 458, 460

Commando Nek, 489, 490

Congreve, Lieutenant, 188

Coningham, Colonel, 243

Connaught Rangers, 1st battalion, 178, 180, 182, 183, 248, 284, 285

Connely, of the Locomotive Department, 413

Conning-tower, 419

Connor, Captain, Death, 90, 91

ConoUy, Major, 454

Constantia Farm, 395

Cookhouse'Drift, 8

Corballis, Captain, 463

Cordua, Lieutenant Hans, 491

Cornwall’s, Duke of. Light Infantry, see Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Coster, Dr., 104'

Crabbe, Colonel, 372

Crane, Lieutenant, 402

Creagh, Colonel Brazier, 396

Crocodile River, 440, 490,498, 509

Cromwell, Oliver, 2

Cronje, Commandant, 127, 137, 139-141, 149, 152, 157, 159, 160, 165, 175, 200, 292, 307,308,315, 319, 321, 323-328, 330, 334-336,

I 339,340, 343, 353, 408, 410, 425, 1 502, 522 Cronje, the younger, 475

Dalbiac, Major, 456

Dalgety, Colonel, 391

Dalmanutha, 494

Daniels, of the Police, 413

Danube, crossing of the, 177

Dartnell, Colonel, 95

Davidson, Artillery Officer, 373

Davies, Karri, 41, 97, 218

Dawkins, Major, 115

Dawson, Colonel, 379

De Aar Junction, 129, 130, 166

De Beers, 128, 299, 305

Dekiei’s Drift, 312

Delagoa Bay, 2, 53, 449, 509

Delagoa Railway, 476, 492

Delarey, Commandant, 242, 477, 478, 487, 490, 497, 502

De Lisle, of the Mounted Infantry, 441

Dennis, Sapper, 226, 230

Derby, Lord, 23

Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters), Istbatt., 174,203, 358, 426, 443; 4th batt., 463, 465

Devonshire Regiment, 1st battalion, 62, 85, 99, 101, 103, 106, 109, 112, 114, 184,210, 222,223, 229, 230; 2nd battalion, 178, 184, 188, 190, 192, 248, 280,499

De Wet, Christian, and his brother,

229, 322, 334, 343, 346, 353, 355, 376, 384, 386, 388, 391, 394, 397, 399, 403, 430, 434, 445, 446, 448, 450, 456, 459, 460-463, 465-469, 472, 475, 478, 479, 482-484, 487490, 497, 502-504, 507, 5U9

Dewetsdorp, 384, 385, 394-397,399

401 De Wet’s Drift, 487 Diamond Fields Horse, 301, 420 Diamond Hill, 445-455, 468, 522 Dick-Cunyngham, Colonel, 107, 225,

230, 262, 295

Digby-Jones, Sapper, 226, 228, 230 Dingaan, Zulu chief, 11 Dolverkrantz, 478

INDEX

543

Doornberg Commando, 86

Doornkloof, 267, 273

Dordrecht, 204, 234, 859, 360

Dornkop, 38

Dorsetshire Regiment, 2nd battahon, 204, 249, 258, 261, 282

Douglas, 201, 374, 375, 485

Douglas, Dr., 164

Douglas, General, 462, 489, 503,505, 506

Douro, crossing of the, 177

Downing, Colonel, 112

Downman, Colonel, 161, 262

Dragoon Guards, 5tli (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s), 62, 85, 99, 103, 109, 209, 210; 6th (Carabineers). 235, 236, 238, 240, 312; Guards, 7th (Princess Royal’s), 478

Dragoons, 1st (Royals), 178, 191, 249; 2nd (Royal Scots Greys), 235, 312, 350, 477; 6th (Inniskillings),235, 236, 237, 240, 242, 245, 312, 355, 429

Drakensberg Range, 83, 291, 361

Driefontein, 347, 350, 351, 353, 373, 535

Dronfield, 318, 328

Dublin Fusiliers, 1st battalion, 62, 178, 180, 183, 214, 215, 248,284286, 293, 294, 447, 486; 2nd battalion, 84, 86. 88, 90, 93, 109, 112

Dugdale, Major, 402

Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, 2nd battalion, 201, 320, 329, 331, 332, 399, 426, 443 Duke of Edinburgh’s Volunteer

Rides, 485 Dundee, 63, 64, 83, 88, 94-97, 104, 107, 110, 117, 361, 431, 432, 535 Dundonald, Lord, 178, 179, 190,

249-253, 279, 292, 389, 433 Durban (Port Natal), 11, 12, 59, 61, 110, 112, 175, 213, 295, 362, 447, 474 Durban Light Infantry, 85, 213, 215 Durham Light Infantry, 1st battalion, 178, 248, 269, 275, 284, 289, 291 Dupleix (Huguenot family), 8 Du Plessis (Boer gaoler), 41

Dutch East India Company, 3, 4 Du Toit (Huguenot family), 3

East Kent Regiment (Buffs), 2nd battalion, 320, 325, 336, 348, 349, 469 East Lancashire Regiment, 1st

battalion, 320, 372, 374, 426 East London, 203, 359 East London Volunteers, 359 East Surrey Regiment, 2nd batt., 178, 184, 217, 248, 280, 291, 447 Eddy, Major, 244

Edinburgh Castle, legend concerning, 161 I Edwardes, Colonel, of the Mounted i Infantry, 218, 228 Egerton, Lieutenant, of the

' Powerful,' 209 Elandslaagte, 95, 96-104, 105, 106, 109, 167, 225,228, 233,361, 393. 477, 517, 522, 535 Elands River, 483, 484, 507 Elands River Station, 454, 508 Eloff, Commandant Sarel, 416,

419, 420 Elworthy, Captain, 429 Engineers, Royal, 58, 85, 128, 218, 226, 227, 228, 248, 249, 256,269, 312,337, 339, 356, 358, 391, 392, 426, 486 English, Major, 486 Enslin, action of, 134-137, 138,

151, 311, 321, 535 Ensor, of the R.A.M.C, 164 Entonjanani District, 61 Erasmus, Commandant, 508 Ermelo, 493 Ermelo Commando, 82 Essex Regiment, 1st battalion, 238, 240, 320, 332, 348, 349, 426, 443 Estcourt, 85, 175, 204, 213, 214,

216, 217 Ethelston, Commander, 186 Eudon, Major, 421 Evans, Colonel, 468 Ewart, Major, 159

Faberspruit, 484 Farquhar’s Farm, 535 Farrar, Mr. George, 40

544

THE GREAT EOER WAR

Faskally, Major, 392

Fauresniith, 150, 356

Fauresmith Commando, 137

Ficksburg, 434, 456, 457, 472, 473

Ficksbuig Commando, 445, 473

Fischer, Mr., 50

FitzClarence, Captain, 407, 409, 411, 482

Fitz Gerald, Captain, 470

FitzPatrick, Mr. J. P., 68

Fort Wylie, 186

Fourie, Commandant, 502

Fouriesburg, 473, 477, 487, 502

Fourteen Streams, 418

Frankfort, 472

Frankland, Lieutenant, 215

Fraser, Mr., 351

Fraser’s Drift, 308

Frederick the Great, 196

Frederickstad, 482, 489

French, General, 85, 9G, 99, 100, 110, 112, 167, 200,233-235, 239, 240. 241, 246, 247, 295, 307, 312, 314-316, 318, 328, 329, 331, 336, 342, 348, 354, 368, 372, 373, 389, 396-400, 402, 403, 428, 429, 435-437, 440, 450-452, 480, 493-495, 497, 500

French mercenaries, 418, 508

Frere, 112, 204, 214, 217

' Funkersdorp,' 210

Gaberones, 416, 417

Game Tree Hill, 304

Gatacre, General, 167,168, 170,173, 178, 200, 203, 204,233,247, 295, 341, 356-359, 361, 384, 385, 389

Geneva Siding, 430

Genoa, allusion to, 294

German mercenaries, 81-83, 96, 104, 420, 428, 508

Germiston, 437

Girdwood, Captain, 411

Girouard, railway pioneer, 426, 467

Glen, 371, 372

Glencoe, 84, 92, 86, 96

Glencoe Station, 94

Gloucester regiment, 1st battalion, 62, 85, 106, 107, 109, 111, 118, 119, 122; 2nd battalion, 320, 325

Godley, Captain, 151

Goldie, Captain, 186

Gordon, Colonel, 493

Gordon Highlanders, 1st battalion, 151, 153, 157-159, 161, 320, 322, 329, 337, 338, 398,401,426, 437, 443, 478, 479; 2nd battalion, 62, 85, 99, 101, 102-104, 107, 109, 112, 114, 225, 227, 229, 393, 494, 500

Gore, Colonel, 103

Goshen, 23

Gough, Colonel, 130

Goulburn, Major, 115

Graatf, Mr. D. P., 68

Graaf-Eeinet, 4

Grahamstown, 399

Granet, Major, 144

Grant, Captain, 351, 358

Grant, General, allusion to, 160

Graspan, see Enslin

Green Hill, 271, 279, 281

Gregorowski, 350

Gi-enadier Guards, 2nd battalion, 455; 3rd battalion, 131, 133, 157, 158, 160, 453, 454

Grenfell, 469

Greylingstad, 493

Greytown, 61

Grimwood, Colonel, 112, 114

Griqualand, 484

Grobler, 375, 476-478 504

Gun Hill, 218, 260, 522

Gunning, Colonel, 90, 91, 107, 262

Hadders Spruit, 86

Haig, Major, 429, 463

Haldane, Captain, 215

Hall, of the Northumberlands, 130

Hall, Colonel, 320

Hambro, Lieutenant, 91

Hamilton, Bruce, 401, 426, 429, 450, 453-455, 472, 473, 503, 504

Hamilton, De Courcy, 295

Hamilton, General Ian, 85, 99, 112, 227, 228, 295, 388,398-401, 403, 425-427, 434-437, 440441, 450, 451, 455, 469, 472, 478, 480, 481, 484, 488, 499, 510

Hammond, Mr., 41

Hampshire Regiment, 2nd battalion, 320, 372, 426

INDEX

545

Hanbury Tracy, Major, 59 Hankey, Corporal, 4G1 Hannay, Colonel, 312, 322, 326, 332 Hanwell, Major, 260, 526 Hare, Captain, 416 Harrismith, 64, 165, 474 Harrismith Commando, 223, 386,

445 Hart, General, 178, 180, 183, 184. 190, 192, 248, 251,254, 268, 281, 283, 284, 287-290, 335, 401, 431, 486, 506 Harvey, Major, 237 Hazerick, Lieutenant, 416 Head, Captain, 323 Hebron, 490 Hector Spruit, 509, 510 Heidelberg, 448, 455, 468, 471,

486, 492, 493 Heidelberg Commando, 82, 223,

258, 453 Heilbron, 434, 435, 460, 462, 463,

466, 469, 502, 509 Hekspoort, 506 Helpmakaar Hill, 207, 230 Helvetia, 498

Henderson, Major, 218, 219 Henderson, Colonel, 342 Henry, Colonel, 437, 438, 440, 441 Herholdt, Mr., 50 Herschel, 360 Hex Valley, 232

Highland Light Infantry, 1st batt., 151, 153, 308, 309, 320, 399,473, 502 Hildyard, General, 176, 178, 184, 190, 192, 204, 214, 216, 217, 248, 251, 255,268, 275, 276, 280, 362, 389, 431, 433, 506 Hlangwane Hill, 179, 190, 191,

278, 279, 281, 288-291 Hoad, of the Australians, 241 Hobbs, Major, 4t8 Hofmeyer, Mr., 50 Holdsworth, Colonel, 481 Hollander Corps, 82, 97, 104, 420 Honing Spruit, 434, 472, 525 Honing Spruit Station, 467 Hoopstad, 431, 434 Hore, Colonel, 406, 419, 483 Hornies Nek, 504 I

Hoskier, Colonel, 357

Hottentots, 13

Houldsworth, Colonel, 414, 415

Household Cavalry, Composite Regiment, 236, 238, 240, 312, 336, 374, 376, 453

Houtnek, 400

Hovel, of the Worcesters, 243

Howard, General, 361

Howe, Sergeant, 356, 357

Huddart, Midshipman, 136

Hughes-Hallett, Colonel, 162

Humby, Captain, 461

Hunt, Colonel, 186

Hunter, General, 85, 218, 295, 362, 386, 389, 394, 430, 431, 434, 448, 455, 468, 469, 472-474, 502

Hunter- Weston, Major, 350

Hussar Hill, 279

Hussars, 8th (King’s Royal Irish), 396; 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal), 236, 237, 240, 312, 336, 374,376; (13th), 178, 191, 248, 249; 14th (King’s), 205, 249, 266, 478; (18th), 84, 86, 92, 93, 109,209,210,494; 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own), 62, 85, 106, 109, 209, 210

Hutchinson, Sir W. Hely, 60

Hutton, General, 388, 425, 427, 450, 476, 479, 480

Imperial Light Horse, 85, 97, 98, 101, 102, 104, 106, 107, 109, 178, 209, 218, 226, 227-230, 249, 292, 393, 420,421,431,476,521

Imperial Light Infantry, 258, 264, 284

Imperial Yeomanry, 199, 386-389, 402, 420, 430, 456, 457, 460-463, 467, 469, 478, 485, 488, 489, 502504, 506

Inglis, of the Canadians, 468

Ingogo, 19

Ingogo River, 61

Inkerman, Battle of, allusion to, 90, 147, 259

Inniskilling Fusiliers, see Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Intombi Camp (' Funkersdorp '), 210

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546

THE GREAT BOER WAR

Irish-American mercenaries, 82

508 Irwin, Major, 269 Isaudhlwana, 11 Israel Poort, 399

Jacobsdal, 313, 321, 322, 329, 334

Jacobsdal Commando, 137

Jacobsrust, 401, 427

Jaeger, de, 228

Jameson, Dr., and the Eaid, 37, 38,

96-98, 139, 300, 302 Jamestown, 360 Jammersburg, 391, 392, 503 Jarvis, of the Rliodesian Force, 417 Jenner, Special Service Officer, 59 Jeppe, Mr., 34 Johannesbm-g, 28, 29, 35-37, 40,

67, 76, 97, 104, 365, 438-440, 448,

450,475-477,486,491,507, 535 Johannesburg Contingent, 104 Johannesburg Police, 120, 349, 496 Johannesburg Railway, 165 Jones, of the Marines, 136 Joubert (Huguenot family), 3 Joubert, General Piet,83,110, 111,

139, 165, 210, 216, 221, 411, 502

Kaal Speuit, 350 Kaapmuiden, 500 Kaffirs, 13, 16, 29 Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles, 359,

391 Kalahari Desert, 404 Kameelsdrift, 451 Kamfersdam 305, 317 Karee,372, 374, 387,389,402,424,

425, 427, 585 Keith, Captain, 461 Keith-Falconer, Colonel, 130 Kekepoort, 506 Kekewich, Colonel, 128, 302, 303,

318 Kelly-Kenny, General, 200, 315,

320, 321, 329, 345, 347, 348, 373,

389, 427 Kent Regiment, East, see East Kent

Regiment Kheis, 485 Kimberley, 75, 127-129, 131, 132,

135, 138, 141, 150, 152, 153,

159, 165, 166, 175, 201, 219, 222, 232,242 273, 277, 319, 321, 322, 324, 325, 328, 341 347, 353, 362, 386, 389, 393, 394, 401, 404, 406, 413, 418, 420, 423, 427, 431, 462, 477, 522, 536

Kimberley Light Horse, 128, 301, 304, 306, 387, 420

Kinglake, allusion to, 283

King’s Royal Rilles, 1st battalion, 84, 88, 90,91, 107, 109, 112, 210, 211, 227, 228, 230, 500; 2nd battalion, 62, 85, 106, 109, 112,210, 227, 229, 230; 3rd battalion, 178, 248, 261, 262, 269, 275, 291

Kipling, 197

Kitchener, Colonel, 289

Kitchener, Lord, 198, 307, 321, 330, 334, 342, 360, 394,425,466, 467, 473, 483, 487, 489, 528

Kitchener’s Hill, 334

Kitchener’s Horse, 323, 324, 333, 400, 401

Klerksdorp, 475, 486

Klip Drift, 314, 315, 321, 324, 325, 327, 329, 344

Klipfontein, 139

Klipgat, 500

Kiipkraal, 327

Klip River Berg, 437, 507

Klip River Division, 61, 111, 208, 229, 436

Kloof Camp, 241

Knapp, Captain, 209

Knight, Mr. E. F., 133

Knox, General, 93, 114, 295, 320, 325, 326, 330, 332, 361

Koch, General, 96, 102, 104

Koch, Judge, 438

Komatipoort, 508, 509

Koodoosberg, 203, 308

Koodoosdrilt, 311, 315

Koodoosrand, 421

Koodoosrand Drift, 327

Korn Spruit, see Sanna’s Post

Kotze, Chief Justice, 42

Kraaipan, 406

Kraai Railway Station, 507

Kraft, Prince, allusions to, 63, 157, 193, 269

Krause, Commissioner, 438

INDEX

547

Kroonstad, 375, 429, 433, 448, 458, 460, 462, 466,467,482, 486, 507, 530

Kruger, President Paul Stephanus, 9, 17, 22, 32, 33, 35, 38-41, 45, 47, 48, 53, 59, 65, 70, 77, 83, 97 202, 300, 346, 363; his peace proposals, 363-365, 386, 439, 449, 497, 499-502, 508, 514

Kruffersdorp, 448, 482, 485, 505507, 509

Krugersdorp Commando, 82

Kruger’s Post, 499

Kuruman, Fall of, 201

Labraii, Mr., 305, 306

Labuschague’s Nek, 360

Ladybrand, 374, 434, 461, 502, 504, 507

Ladybrand Commando, 386, 474

Lady Grey, 233, 360

Ladysmith, 63, 64, 84, 85, 94-97, 99, 105-107, 111, 112, 114, 117, 118, 120, 125, 165, 175-177, 179, 184, 192, 200, 204, 205, 206231, 242, 247, 249, 251, 259, 265, 267, 277, 280-284, 289, 291; (its relief), 292, 296, 297, 300, 301, 303, 336, 341, 343, 361, 393, 398, 411, 413, 418, 431, 432, 446, 480, 496, 498, 525, 528, 534, 536

' Ladysmith Lyre,' 212

Lafone, killed at Ladysmith, 230

Laing’s Nek, 19, 61-64, 432, 433, 446, 455, 498

Laing’s Nek Railway, 165

Lambert, Commandant, 239

Lambton, Captain Hedworth, 116, 208, 227, 295

Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd batt., 205, 248, 254-256, 259, 264, 290, 293

Lancashire Regiments, see East Lancashire, South Lancashire, and Loyal North Lancashire

Lancaster Regiment (King’s Own Royal), 2nd battalion, 205, 248, 256, 264, 283, 290, 293; Militia battalion, 467

Lancers, 5th (Royal Irish), 85, 96, 99, 103, 106, 109, 114, 209, 210,

223; 9th (Queen’s Royal), G2,

99, 129-131,135, 138, 142, 152,

153, 156,202 308, 312, 315, 336,

396; 12th (Prince of Wales’s

Royal), 151, 158, 202, 312, 314,

317, 336, 401,452; 16th (Queen’s),

312, 336, 346:¥'^^^^ Landraans Drift, 86 Lanyon, Sir Owen, 18 Leary, Chaplain, J. W., 416 Leeuw Kop, 396 Le Gallais, Colonel, 372, 373 Leicester Regiment, 1st battalion,

84, 88, 94, 109, 112 Leon, Mr., 306 Leyds, Dr., 46, 126 Lichtenburg, 406 Limpopo, 11, 13 Lincoln Regiment, 2nd battalion,

320, 372, 373, 426, 477 Lindley, 430, 434, 459, 460, 462,

469, 470, 472, 480, 519, 525 Lindsay, Lieutenant, 156 Little, Colonel, 473 Little Tugela, 249 Liverpool Regiment (King’s), 1st

battaHon, 85, 106, 109, 112,

494 Livingstone, Private, 182 Lloyd, Colonel, 457 Lobatsi, 415, 417 Lombard’s Kop (battle of), 109,

118, 163, 206-208, 210, 225 London Convention, 23 Long, Colonel, 185-187, 193, 216,

225, 237, 454, 478 Longford, Lord, 461 Lourenijo Marques, 500, 508, 509 Lovat, Lord, 504 Lovat’s Scouts, 462 Lowe, Colonel, 478 Loyal North Lancashire Regiment,

1st battalion, 128, 130, 131, 135

146, 302, 319, 462 Lucknow, relief of, 150 Lukin, Captain, 392 Lumsden’s Horse, 369, 402 Luttig, Jan, 221 Lydenburg, 13, 18, 449, 492, 495,

498, 499, 501 Lygon, Lieutenant, 372

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548

THE GREAT BOER WAR

Lyttelton, General, 178, 184, 190, '248, 251, 253, 254, .261, 2G2, 268, 270, 272, 274, 275, 278, 279,284, 288, 361, 362, 389, 433

Macaulay, allusion to, 307 McCracken, Major, 236 Maedonald, Colonel, 320 Macdonalcl, General Hector (' Fighting Mac '), 200, 203, 308, 309, 320, 332, 345, 382, 401, 469, 472-474, 504, 506 Machadodorp, 494, 497, 501 Maclaren, of the Rhodesian Force,

417 McMicking, Special Service Officer,

59 MacNaughten, Lieutenant, 227 Madocks, Captain, 238, 239 Mafeking, 10, 38, 76, 127, 137, 150, 297, 303, 383, 389, 391, 393; (the siege of), 403-423, 430, 431, 442, 456, 476, 483, 486, 505, 518, 536 Mafeking Town Guards, 407 Magaliesberg Range, 482, 483, 489,

491 Magato Pass, 482, 489, 490 Magersfontein, 150-164, 169, 172, 180, 183, 200, 203, 238, 286, 304, 815-317, 325, 329, 332, 335, 337, 341, 344, 536 Mahan, Captain, 362 Mahon, Colonel, 420, 421, 430,

448, 476, 480, 481 Majuba Hill, 19, 63, 104, 229, 339,

399, 432, 455, 459 Malmini, 76 Malopo, 506

Manchester Regiment, 1st battahon, 61, 62, 85, 97, 101-103, 109, 112, 114, 210, 211, 224, 225, 229, 230 Marabastad, 18 Marandellas, 422 Marico River, 10 Marlborough, 196 Marlborough, Duke of, 442 Marshall, General, 320 Marshall’s Horse, 399 Martin, Sergeant-Major, 380, 381

Martyr, Colonel, 381

Masibi Stadt, 421, 422

Massena, allusion to, 294

Matabeli, the, 10, 11

Mathias, of the Imperial Light

Horse, 226 Mauchberg, 499, 500 Maude, Captain, 461 Maxwell, General, 426, 441, 442 Maxwell, Major Cedric, 392 Mentz, de, Field-Cornet, 253 Mercer, allusion to, 186 Metcalfe, Colonel, 220, 496 Methuen, General Lord, 126-149, 150-165, 167, 168, 175, 179, 200-203, 247, 280, 295, 299, 303, 304, 307, 308,315,319, 324, 341, 386, 389, 410, 411, 418, 427, 430, 434, 445, 458, 461, 462, 466, 478, 482, 483, 488-490, 503, 505, 506 Meyer, Lucas, 91, 92, 96 Middelburg, 448-450, 493 Middelburg Commando, 82 Middle Drift, 61

Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), 2nd battalion, 205, 249, 258, 259,282, 447 Miller-Wallnutt, of the Gordons,

227, 228, 230 Milligan, Lieutenant, 418 Milner, Sir Alfred, 47, 48, 50-52,

54, 59, 75, 77, 78 Milton, Major, 158 Modder River, 158, 161, 246, 307, 312-315, 326, 333, 340,344, 348, 353, 371, 374, 398; battle of, 138, 140-149, 157, 159-161, 171, 174, 200, 330, 517, 536 Moller, Colonel, 92 Molteno, 169, 171, 173, 174, 356 Montcalm, allusion to, 161 Monte Christo, 279, 280, 286, 288,

290 Montmorency, Captain de, 203, 356 Montmorency’s Scouts, 356, 357 Mooi River, 176, 216 Mount Alice, 250, 251, 253, 260, 267 Munger’s Drift, 268 Muriel, Captain, 259 Murray, of the Kimberley Force, 318 Murray, of the Scottish Rifles, 260

INDEX

649

Naauwpooet, 130, 234, 246, 312, 473

Napoleon, allusions to, 168, 173, 196, 300, 302, 323, 331

Natal, 11, 12, 60-66, 76, 83, 86, 108, 109, 126, 127, 165, 175, 198, 202, 213, 215, 216, 290-292, 295, 296, 299, 335, 336, 353, 361, 362, 386, 389, 407, 431, 432, 434, 438, 446, 447, 474, 480, 493

Natal Carabineers, 85, 96, 109, 178, 218, 222, 249, 292

Natal Field Artillery, 85, 97-99

Natal Mounted Police, 85, 86, 95, 249

Natal Naval Volunters, 85, 106

Natal Royal Rifles, 85

National Eeform Union, 34

Naval Brigade and naval guns, 116, 131, 130, 152, 164, 178, 179, 182, 184, 185, 208,212, 215,217, 227, 249, 253, 260, 267, 268, 320, 324, 345, 398, 462

Nel, Commandant, 464

Nelson, allusion to, 173

Nesbitt, Captain, 406

Newcastle, 64, 86, 432

Newcastle Railway, 117, 361

Newcastle Road, 106

New South Wales Contingent, 201, 234, 238-240, 312, 388

' New York Herald,' 196

New Zealand Contingent, 235, 236, 238, 240, 244, 307, 369, 376,380, 381, 388, 390, 479

Nicholson, Sir William, 528

Nicholson’s Nek, 111; the disaster of, described, 118-125; allusions to, 172, 206, 383, 432, 519

Nitral’s Nek, 477, 479, 481

Nolan, Colour-Sergeant, 259

Nooitgedaoht, 497

Norcott, 289, 290

Norfolk, Duke of, 441

Norfolk Regiment, 2nd battalion, 320, 372, 426

Northamptonshire Regiment, 2nd battalion, 131, 135, 151, 319

North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s), 2ndbattalion, 320, 372, 426

Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st bat-

talion, 129-131, 133, 135, 319,

460; 2nd battalion, 169, 172,

203, 384 Norval’s Pont, 166, 232-234, 238,

355, 358, 368 Nottingham Road, 216 Nugent, of the Royal Rifles, 90 Nurse, Corporal, 188 Nylstroom, 505

Observation Hill, 230

Ogilvy, Lieutenant, of the ' Terrible,' 185

Oldfield, Major, 470

O'Leary, Lt.-Col. MacCarthy, 291

Olifant’s Nek, 478, 482, 489, 490

Olive Siding, 357

Olivier, Commandant, 174, 375, 445, 459, 469, 473, 474, 500

O'Meara, Major, 303

Ootsi, 422

Orange Free State, 10-12, 14, 15, 47, 49, 56, 60, 61, 63-66, 74-77, 202, 213, 216, 245, 295, 386, 352, 356, 358-361, 364, 366, 367, 390, 435, 445, 446, 448, 456, 511

Orange River, 10, 11, 13, 129, 130, 166, 213, 232, 311, 355, 356

Orange River Bridges, 166, 357

Orange River Colony, 352, 436, 447, 471,502, 506, 507, 510, 518

Orr, Captain, 238

Osfontein, 343

Otter, Colonel, 399

Otto’s Hoop, 483, 486

Oxfordshire Light Infantry, 1st battalion, 320, 325, 332

Paaedebekg, Battle of, described, 319; allusions to, 348, 353, 360, 371, 426, 455, 477, 488, 536

Paardeberg Drift, 327, 328

Paardekop, 493

Pack-Beresford, Major, 379

Packman, of the Light Horse, 230

Page, Sergeant, 413

Paget, General, 463, 469, 470-472, 473, 490, 504, 505, 508

Paget’s Horse, 485

Pain, Hacket, Colonel, 243, 354

Paley, Captain, 221

650

THE GREAT BOEE WAR

Panzera, Major, 407

Paton, of theRhodesian Force, 411

Penoek, 359

Pepworth Hill, 113, 208, 219,

Peterborough, Lord, allusion to, 408

Phillipolis, 356

Phillips, Mr. Lionel, 40

Phipps-Hornby, Major, 380

Pienaar, General, 509

Pienaar’s Poort, 449

Pienaar’s River, 504

Pietermaritzburg, 61, 111,216,295

Pieters, 281, 296

Pietersburg Railway, 439

Pieter’s Hill, 283, 291, 496

Pilcher, Colonel, 201, 202, 374, 375, 481

Pilgrim’s Rest, 499

Pilson, Special Service Officer, 59

Plumbe, of the Marines, 136

Plume, Colonel, 202

Plumer, Colonel, 59, 390, 411, 413, 416, 417, 422, 481, 505, 508, 518

Pole-Carew, General, 359, 389, 396-398, 402, 426,^441,450,479, 480, 494, 495, 497, 500, 509

Popham, of the Derbyshires, 351, 358

Poplars Grove, 344, 347, 353

Port Elizabeth, 53, 238

Porter, Colonel, 238, 241, 442

Port Natal, see Durban

Potchefstroom, 13, 18, 139, 335, 448, 455, 482, 485, 488, 506

Potgeiter’s Drift, 249, 251, 253, 536

Potgeiter’s Ford, 267

Pretoria, 8, 18, 35, 37-39, 48, 53, 50, 67, 76, 77, 125, 219, 350, 362, 386, 415, 424, 430, 438-439, 442444, 448, 450, 454, 474-476, 480, 482, 487, 489-491, 497, 504-506, 515, 535, 536

Pretoria Convention, 21, 23, 34

Pretoria-Delagoa Railway, 439

Pretoria Gaol, 97

Pretorius, Commandant, 104

Pretyman, General, 339, 403

Prieska District, 360

Prinsloo, Commandant, 151, 445, 459, 473, 474, 487, 502

Probyn, of R.A.M.C, 164

Protectorate Regiinent, 406, 407,

410, 413, 419 Prothero, Captain, 136

Queensland Contingent, 201, 381,

388, 421, 518 Queenstown Volunteers, 359, 502

Raad-saal at Pretoria, 443

Railway Hill, 287

Railway Pioneer Regiment, 426,

465, 467 Ralph, Mr. Julian, 132 Ramathlabama, 417, 418 Ramdam, 312, 321, 322, 341, 352, 354 Rand, the, 436 Ray, Major, 158 Reddersberg, 382-385, 387, 389,

390, 394, 395, 519, 525, 536 Reed, Captain, 189 Reitz, 270

Reitz, Dr. F. W., 69, 70, 75 Reitz (the younger), 220, 221 Reitzburg, 487

Rensburg, 235, 230, 244, 245, 355 Reteif’s Nek, 473 Rhenoster, 466 Rhcnoster Bridge, 466 Rhenoster Kopje, 465, 466 Rhenoster River, 434 Rhodes, Colonel, 40 Rhodes, Mr. Cecil, 37, 38, 40, 128,

300, 302, 305, 414 Rhodesia, 23, 75, 390, 404, 407,

414, 423 Rhodesian Regiment, 202, 241, 413,

414, 416-418, 421, 422, 430, 484,

504 Rice, Captain, 124 Richardson, Colonel, 342, 528 Riddel], Colonel Buchanan, 262 Ridley, Colonel, 312, 322, 388, 401,

472, 473, 502 Riet River, 145, 312, 322, 350 Rietfontein, 109, 241; battle of,

95, 105-108 Rifle Brigade, 1st battalion, 178,

248, 209, 284, 288, 289, 291;

2nd battalion, 85, 109, 112, 115,

210, 220, 221, 225, 230, 496 Rifleman’s Post, 207

INDEX

551

Rimington, Major, 314

Rimington’s Guides, or Scouts, 135, 240, 242, 312, 350, 369, 374, 376, 380

Eobben Island, 214

Roberts, Lieutenant, 188

Roberts, Lord, 20, 198, 203, 241, 246, 272, 277, 282, 303, 307, 310, 311, 313, 319, 323, 327, 328, 334, 335, 339-345, 347-349, 351, 352, 354-356, 358, 359, 361, 362, 368, 369, 372, 374, 384, 386-389, 394, 897, 400-402, 403, 418,424-426, 428, 430, 434-436, 440, 442, 443, 445, 448-450, 455, 466, 474-477, 479, 480, 487, 491-495, 498, 499, 508

Roberts’s Horse, 369, 374,376, 378381, 396

Robertson, Captain Crewe, 418

Robinson, Mr. John, of Johannesberg, 28, 65

Robinson Mine, 438

Rolt, of the Rhodesian Force, 417

Roodeval, 448, 463, 467, 480, 525

Roodeval Bridge, 466

Roodeval Station, 465

Rooidam, 421, 430

Roux (Huguenot family), 3

Rouxville, 360, 389, 394

Rouxville Commando, 174

Royal Fusiliers 2nd battalion, 178

Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), 2nd battalion, 151, 153, 156, 161, 234, 308, 309, 320, 473

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1st battahon, 178, 180, 248, 284, 285, 286, 293

Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s), 1st battalion, 84, 88, 90, 109, 111, 118, 123-125; 2nd battahon, 178, 192, 479, 496

Royal Irish Regiment, 1st battalion, 240, 457, 469, 471

Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd battalion, 168, 172, 178, 203, 384

Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1st battalion, 62, 129, 130, 201, 462, 470, 471, 505

Royal Scots, 1st battalion, 174, 203, 359, 499

Royal ScotsFusiliers, 2nd battalion, 178, 198, 191, 192

Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st battalion, 429, 443, 453, 473

Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1st battahon, 178, 287, 472, 488

Royston, Colonial Commander, 218

Rundle, General, 389, 395-402, 403, 426, 430, 434, 445, 456, 457, 469, 473

Russian mercenaries, 508

Rustenburg, 18, 406, 448, 475,477, 481-484, 486, 487, 506

Sadowa, allusions to, 157, 160

St. John’s Ambulance, 533

St. Vincent, 213

Salisbury, Lord, 54, 363, 366

Salisbury Plain, 519

Sampson, Mr. (reformer), 41, 97

Sandford, of the Rhodesian Force,

411 Sand River, 429, 467 Sand River Convention, 14, 16, 17

20 Sandspruit, 81, 88 Sanna’s Post, 333, 376-382, 384,

387, 390, 396, 452, 477, 502, 536 Scandinavian Corps, 162 Schiel, Colonel, 83, 96, 102, 104 Schofield, Lieutenant, 188 Schreiber, Lieutenant, 186 Schreiner, Mr., 50, 299 Schreiuer, Mr. Theodore, 69 Schutte, Commander, 230 Scots Guards, 1st battalion, 131,

133, 143, 159, 160, 453, 454;

2nd battalion, 457 Scott, Captaiif Percy, 116 Scott, Commandant of Police at

Vryburg, his fate, 128 Scott Moncrieii', of the Middlesex,

259 Scott-Turner, Major, 301, 304 Scottish Borderers (King’s Own),

1st battalion, 320, 372-374, 426,

481 Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd battahon, 151, 153, 156, 162, 308,

309, 3*J0, 332, 473 Sedan, allusion to, 206

552

THE GREAT EOER WAR

Sekwani, 415

Selati Railway Company, 29 Senekal, 434, 456, 457, 469, 536 Senekal Commando, 445 Senior, of the Marines, 136 Seymour, Major, 426, 467 Shepstone, Sir Theophilus, 16, 18 Sherston, Colonel (death), 89, 91,

262 Shoemann, General, 236, 239 Shropshire Light Infantry (King’s),

2nd battalion, 320, 329, 332, 337,

398, 401, 426, 443, 465, 467, 468,

479, 486, 487, 504 Signal Hill, 112 Sikhs in South Africa, 355 Sikukuni, 16, 17 Sim, Colonel, 261 Sitwell, Colonel, 262, 286, 287 Slaapkrantz, 474 Slabbert’s Nek, 472 Slagter’s Nek, 8 Slater, Lieutenant, 504 Slingersfontein, 238, 241, 242 Smaldeel, 427, 428, 459 Smith-Dorrien, General, 320, 329-

332, 335, 337, 382, 400, 401, 450,

467, 478, 489 Smithfield, 401 Smithfield Commando, 174 Smith’s Nek, 91 Snyman, Commandant, 410-412,

420, 422, 456 Somersetshire Light Infantry

(Prince Albert’s), 2nd battalion,

249, 258, 283 Soudan, 356

South African Horse, 178, 249,

250, 254, 446, 447

South African Republic, see Transvaal Republic

South Australian Contingent, 239, 388

South Lancashire Regiment, 1st battalion, 205, 248, 256, 259, 283, 290

South Wales Borderers, 2nd battalion, 320, 372, 426, 466

Spence, Colonel, 485

Spens, Colonel, 467

Spicheren, allusion to, 144

Spion Kop, 247-265, 268, 272, 277,

278, 291, 293, 296, 432, 447,

485, 496, 517-519, 527, 536 Spitzkop, 499, 500 Spragge, Colonel, 460 Spreckley, Colonel, 416, 504 Springfield, 204, 249 Springfontein, 359, 384, 385 Springs, 476, 486 Spytfontein, 150, 162 Standerton, 18, 62, 448, 455, 468,

493, 507 Standerton Commando, 82, 493 Stangar, 61

Stanley, Lieutenant, 506 Stellaland, 23 Stellenbosch, 3 Stephenson, General, 241, 320, 327,

830, 332, 396, 426, 441 Sterkstroom, 168, 200, 203, 233, 356 Steyn, President, 65, 75, 77, 346,

351, 355, 375, 430, 434, 445, 487,

491 Steynsberg. 234 Stoneman, Colonel, 212, 295 Stormberg, 180, 232, 233, 264, 341,

353,356, 384, 385, 477, 526, 536;

battle of, described, 165-174 Strathcona’s Horse, 492 Stubbs, Major, 243 Suffolk Regiment, 1st battalion,

236, 237 Sunday River, 95 Surprise Hill, 220 Surrey Regiment, East, sen East

Surrey Regiment Swart Kopjes, 497 Swartz Kop, 267, 269, 275 Swaziland Commando, 83 Swellendam, 4 Symons, General Sir William

Penn, 64, 84, 86, 89, 91, 94,

107, 294, 431

Table Mountain, 214

Tait, of the Black Watch, 309

Talana Hill, 81-97, 104, 118, 171,

287, 431, 517, 525 Talavera, allusion to, 95, 132 Tasmanian Contingent, 235, 242,

369, 388

INDEX

553

Taunton, Major, 209 Taylor, Major, 381 Tel-el-Kebir, allusion to, 163 Texan muleteers, 178 Thabanchu, 374, 375, 384, 397,

399, 401, 402, 424, 428 Thackeray, Colonel, 192, 262, 286,

287 Theron, Commandant Sarel, 486,

507 Thoba Mountain, 400 Thorneycroft, Colonel, 178, 237,

256-259,262-204 Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry,

178. 249, 256, 265 Thoroia, Colonel, 287 Thwaites, Captain, 115 Ticonderoga, Battle of, 161 Tinta Inyoni, 106 Tintwa Pass, 83 Tobin, Colonel, 254 Toronto, 420 Towse, Captain, 401 Tracy, Hanbury, 481 Transvaal Republic, 11, 13-16,20-

25, 28, 44-46, 49-51, 54-56, 60,

61, 64, 66, 69, 72, 75-78, 129,

362-364, 366, 367, 404, 414,

424, 430, 432, 436, 446, 447,

459, 484, 498, 505 Trichard’s Drift, 251, 253 Trommel, 456 Trotter, Captain, 372 Tucker, General, 320, 321, 323,

334, 345, 348, 372, 373, 389,

426, 427, 441 Tucker, Mr., 438 Tugela Pviver, 64, 175, 177, 179,

204, 213, 217, 249, 265, 278,

281, 294, 295, 341, 495, 498 Turner, Lieutenant A. J., 479 Twyfelaar, 493

UiTR.\i,’s Nek, 536 Ulm, allusion to. 206 Utrecht, 433, 506 Utrecht Commando, 83

Vaalkranz, 266-276, 293,296, 297, 517

Vaal River, 18, 296, 387, 418, 430,

435, 436, 462, 473, 482, 487, 488 Van Reenen’s Pass, 83, 474, 480 Vants Drift, 86 Van Wyk’s Hill, 446 Venter.sburg, 261, 460 Ventersdorp, 475, 487 Vereeniging, 77 Verner, Colonel Willoughby, 132,

138 Vernon, of the Maf eking Defence

Force, 411 Vet River, 333, 427 Vice, a London Volunteer, 357 Victorian Contingent, 202, 244,

245, 388 Victoria, Queen, 417 Viljoen, Commandant, 508 Viljoen’s Drift, 435 Villebois-Mareuil, General de, 386,

387, 389, 462 Villiers (Huguenot family), 3 Villiers, Commandant de, 223,

227, 228, 459, 485 Vlakfontein, 493 Volksrust, 61, 76, 81, 447 Vrede, 434 Vredefort Road, 435 Vryburg, 128, 421 Vryheid, 61, 83, 433 Vryheid Commando, 256 Vyvyan, Colonel, 407

Waggon Hill, 207, 211, 224, 226-

228 Wakkerstroom, 18 Wakkerstroom Commando, 82 Wales, Prince of, 211 Walford, Colonel, 409 Ward, Colonel, 212, 295, 528 Warm Baths, 505 Warren, General Sir Charles,

200, 204, 247, 248, 252, 253, 255,

264, 271, 279, 362, 389, 484, 485 Warren’s Scouts, 485 Warrenton, 325 Warrington, 387 Warwickshire Regiment (Royal),

2nd battalion, 204, 240, 320, 426,

443

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Waschbank, 125

Waschbank Spruit, 95

Waterloo, allusion to, 148, 186

Watersberg, 414

Waterval, 333, 442, 450, 497

Water val-Boven, 449

Waterval Drift, 312, 322

Watervalonder, 497

Watson, Colonel, 237, 238

Wauchope, General, 154, 155, 161,

162, 201, 308 Wavell, Genera], 320,321, 372, 373,

426 Webb, Trooper, 411 Weenen, 204 Wegdraai, 321 • Weil, Benjamin, 406 Welgelgen, 428 Wellington, allusion to, 92, 144,

177, 263,433 Welsh Regiment, 1st battalion, 320,

332, 348, 349, 426, 443 Wepener, 360, 383, 389, 391, 393-

396, 400, 401, 403, 503 Wessels, Commandant, 127, 302, West Australian Contingent, 388,

427, 454, 455 West Kent Regiment (Queen’s

Own Royal), 2nd battalion, 457 West Eiding Regiment (Duke of

Wellington’s) 1st battalion, 320,

325, 332 West Surrey Regiment (Queen’s),

2nd battalion, 178, 184, 185, 217,

248, 280, 447 Weston, Major Hunter, 439 White, General Sir George, 04, 84-

86, 95, 100, 105-107, 109-111,114,

115, 117, 118, 120, 121,125,163,

175, 206, 207, 282, 284, 361, 393 White, Major, 503 Wilford, Colonel, 107, 262 Wilkinson, of the Australian Horse,

429 WiUiams, Captain, 407 Willow Grange, 176, 217, 536

Wilson, General, 530 Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s), 2nd battalion, 240,

241, 244, 245, 354, 457, 469 Winburg, 300, 400, 401, 403, 426-

428, 502-504

Winburg Commando, 386

Winchester, Lord, 161

Windsorton, 430

Wolverans, Commandant, 340

Wolveskraal Drift, 329

Wood, General, 130

Wood, of the North Lancashires 130

Wood, Sir Evelyn, 20

Woodgate, General, 248, 251, 256258, 289

Worcestershire Regiment, 1st battalion, 395; 2nd battalion, 240,

242, 243, 354, 457, 469, 503 W^ynberg, 3

Wynne, General, 268, 279, 282, 289

YoEK AND Lancaster Regiment, 1st battalion, 205, 248, 254, 290

York, Duke of, allusion to, 206

Yorkshire Light Infantry (King’s Own), 2nd battalion, 129-131, 136, 146, 157, 158, 319,462, 470, 471

Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own West), 2nd battalion, 178, 184, 217, 248, 280

Yorkshire Regiment (Princess of Wales’s Own), 1st battalion, 204, 238, 240, 320, 332, 336, 348, 349, 426, 443, 457

Youngj Gunner, 188

Younger, Captain. 479

Yule, Colonel, 94, 105, 518

Zeekust, 406, 448, 481, 483, 486,

491, 505 Zootpansberg, 13, 414 Zululand, 22, 61 Zulus, 10, 11, 16, 17, 425

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