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A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans By: Unknown |
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With General Map of South Africa
and 18 Sketch Maps
and Plans
GALE AND POLDEN LIMITED LONDON AND ALDERSHOT 1910 BUTLER & TANNER THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS FROME AND LONDON
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I PROLEGOMENA 1 I The Roundheads of South Africa 1 II Patriotism, Duty and Discipline 19 III War considered as a Branch of Sport 26 II THE NATAL WEDGE 36 III DEUS EX MACHINA NO. I 51 IV KIMBERLEY AND THE SIEGE OF RHODES 82 V A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS 96 VI MORE TUGELA TROUBLES 116 VII LADYSMITH AT BAY 138 VIII DEUS EX MACHINA NO. 2 156 IX ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS 193 X BADEN POWELL AND THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING 212 XI BLOEMFONTEIN TO PRETORIA 229 XII THE NEW COLONY 247 XIII NEC CELER NEC AUDAX 262 XIV THE TAMING OF THE TRANSVAAL 273 XV THE RECURRENCES OF DE WET 294 XVI LORD KITCHENER AT WORK 311 XVII THE MECHANICAL PHASE 345 I Orange River Colony 345 II Eastern Transvaal 354 III Western Transvaal 357 IV Cape Colony 363 XVIII THE END 365 COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS AND BRIGADES 368 INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES 369 SKETCH MAPS AND PLANS[1] PAGE Northern Natal 50 Modder River and Magersfontein 59 Stormberg 65 Colenso 70 Spion Kop and Vaalkrantz 98 Spion Kop 104 Final Advance on Ladysmith 128 Siege of Ladysmith 139 Riet and Modder Drifts 161 Paardeberg 172 Poplar Grove and Driefontein 185 Sannah's Post 199 Magaliesberg District 240 Diamond Hill 243 Brandwater Basin 257 Orange Free State 260 Southern Transvaal 292 Noitgedacht Nek 319 General Map of South Africa at the beginning. [Footnote 1: The thanks of the Author are due to the Army Council for
permission to copy the maps and plans in the Official History of the
War, and to L.S. Amery, Esq., for permission to copy the plans in the
fifth volume of the Times History of the War.]
PREFATORY NOTE
The author has endeavoured in this Handbook to compile, for the use of
students and others, a general account of the various phases of the Boer
War of 1899 1902, in which he served for twenty six months. With some exceptions, every statement of fact relating to the military
operations may be verified in one or more of the following
publications The "Times" History of the War; The War Office Official History of the War; The Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission of
Inquiry into the War. To the two Histories, which have been but recently completed, the Author
is much indebted. Other authorities have, however, been consulted. The Sketch Maps and Plans of certain areas and battlefields are only
intended to give, by means of a few hachures, contours, and form lines,
a general impression of topographical features. The Author has from time to time in the course of the narrative
indicated what he believes to have been the chief causes of the
prolongation of the War: The inefficacy of modern Tactics as a means of dealing with
partisan warfare; The moral reinforcement derived from a confident belief in the
justice of a cause, by which the enemy was continually
encouraged to persevere; The reluctance of the British leaders to fight costly battles; The constitutional inability of the British Officer to take War
seriously; The waste of British horses due to inexpert Horsemastership... Continue reading book >>
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