Boer War
THE VOTE OF CENSURE 1 KIMBERLEY 14 GENERAL FRENCH'S RIDE, FEBRUARY 12 TO 15 30 STRATEGY _versus_ TACTICS 37 THE HERDING OF CRONJE, FEBRUARY 16 TO 18 49 THE BATTLE OF PAARDEBERG, FEBRUARY 18 54 TRAPPED 62 THE SURRENDER OF CRONJE 71
"Storm, strong with all the bitter heart of hate, Smote England, now nineteen dark years ago, As when the tide's full wrath in seaward flow Smites and bears back the swimmer. Fr...
13. CHAPTER VOn the 8th of February General Buller again retired across the Tugela. He realised that his whole flanking movement had been a failure, and though the ill-success has been attri...
16. CHAPTER VIIIFive months of beleaguerment and no nearer the end! Ruefully the caged crowd began to draw pictures of themselves as weird Rip Van Winkles, curious fossilised things that would...
15. CHAPTER VIIThe pastoral little town of brick and tin in the vast expanse of toasted grass had now become a centre of civilisation, one may almost say a fashionable rendezvous. There regime...
10. CHAPTER IIIBefore going on, it must be noted that on the 19th Lord Roberts had issued a proclamation to the Burghers of the Free State in English and Dutch. He said that the British having...
9. did. Lord Edward Cecil's work was ceaseless; as Chief Staff Officer hecame in for both the external fights and the internal discords. He smoothed down quarrels, dispensed justice, allayed "siege fever" in all its intermittent phases, and in fact p...
14. CHAPTER VIWe must now return to Colesberg after the departure of General French. The Boers, doubtless much relieved to get quit of him, still occupied a semicircular set of camps from eas...
12. CHAPTER IVThe investment was much less close than formerly. Owing to the increasing activity in other parts of the theatre of war, Colonel Baden-Powell was relieved of the pressing attent...
11. did. In starting they encountered the first of the British victors,Lieutenant Chester-Master, with three of Remington's scouts. At last they came to the Chief's halting-place, and the surrender of the town was made known. The mediæval ceremony...
8. CHAPTER IIChristmas Day, in deference to warlike etiquette, was observed as a holiday; but, in spite of the pacific nature of the occasion, the man who was the brain of Mafeking was organ...
6. CHAPTER VIII12-13.--General French, following up Hannay's movement, crossed Riet River, and next day with a strong force marched twenty-five miles into the Free State, seized Klip Drift on...
1. CHAPTER ITHE VOTE OF CENSURE 1 KIMBERLEY 14 GENERAL FRENCH'S RIDE, FEBRUARY 12 TO 15 30 STRATEGY _versus_ TACTICS 37 THE HERDING OF CRONJE, FEBRUARY 16 TO 18 49 THE BATTLE OF PAARDEBERG,...
3. CHAPTER VAT CHIEVELEY AGAIN 121 LADYSMITH, FEBRUARY 1 TO 26 129 THE BATTLE OF PIETERS, FEBRUARY 20 TO 27 134 EXPECTATION 151 THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH, FEBRUARY 28 153 THE FORMAL ENTRY, MA...
2. CHAPTER III4. CHAPTER VI5. CHAPTER VII