CHAPTER IX
THE INTERREGNUM AT PRETORIA 179
FROM JOHANNESBURG TO PRETORIA 184
APPENDIX
REARRANGEMENT OF STAFF 193
DEATHS IN ACTION AND FROM DISEASE 195
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS--VOL. V.
MAP SHOWING THE LINES OF ADVANCE FROM BLOEMFONTEIN TO PRETORIA _At Front_
1. _COLOURED PLATES_
PAGE
GENERAL AND STAFF _Frontispiece_
SERGEANT--18TH HUSSARS 48
MOUNTED INFANTRY 56
SCOUT--6TH DRAGOON GUARDS 68
THE ROYAL MARINES 76
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS AND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY 80
WEST SURREY AND EAST SURREY 96
OFFICERS OF THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS 160
2. _FULL-PAGE PLATES_
THE DISASTER AT KOORNSPRUIT 8
THE REDDERSBURG MISHAP 16
BRITISH PRISONERS ON THEIR WAY TO PRETORIA 24
LORD ROBERTS'S COLUMN CROSSING THE SAND RIVER DRIFT 100
THE SURRENDER OF KROONSTADT 104
MAFEKING: "THE WOLF THAT NEVER SLEEPS" 108
THE LAST ATTACK ON MAFEKING 136
LORD ROBERTS AND HIS ARMY CROSSING THE VAAL RIVER 140
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY CROSSING THE VAAL 144
GENERAL IAN HAMILTON THANKING THE GORDONS FOR THEIR ATTACK AT THE BATTLE OF DOORNKOP 148
THE CITY OF LONDON IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS SUPPORTING GENERAL HAMILTON'S LEFT FLANK IN THE ACTION AT DOORNKOP 152
HAULING DOWN THE TRANSVAAL FLAG AT JOHANNESBURG 156
THE GRENADIER GUARDS AT THE BATTLE OF BIDDULPH'S BERG 168
PURSUING THE BOERS AFTER THE FIGHT ON HELPMAKAAR HEIGHTS 176
SCENE IN PRETORIA SQUARE, JUNE 5 184
THE ENTRY OF LORD ROBERTS AND STAFF INTO PRETORIA 192
3. _FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS_
LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD HUNTER, K.C.B. 32
COLONEL LORD CHESHAM 40
LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR H. M. LESLIE-RUNDLE, K.C.B. 64
MAJOR-GENERAL POLE-CAREW 72
MAJOR-GENERAL IAN HAMILTON 88
LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK CARRINGTON, K.C.M.G. 112
LIEUT.-COLONEL BRYAN T. MAHON, D.S.O. 120
LIEUT.-COLONEL PLUMER 128
4. _MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT_
PLAN--KOORN SPRUIT DISASTER 5
MAP--DISTRICT S. AND E. OF BLOEMFONTEIN 15
THE MODEL SCHOOL, PRETORIA 22
NEW CAMP FOR BRITISH PRISONERS AT PRETORIA 29
FIELD GUN--ELSWICK BATTERY 39
THE NATIVE VILLAGE OF MAFEKING 47
MAFEKING POSTAGE STAMPS 52
THE DEFENCE OF WEPENER 58
WEPENER 66
OPERATIONS AT DEWETSDORP 76
MAP OF MOVEMENTS S. AND E. OF BLOEMFONTEIN 82
KENT COTTAGE, ST. HELENA 86
LORD ROBERTS AND STAFF WATCHING THE BOERS' RETREAT FROM ZAND RIVER 103
KROONSTADT 107
GENERAL BADEN-POWELL AND OFFICERS AT MAFEKING 114
MAP AND ITINERARY, COLONEL MAHON'S MARCH 118
MAP OF ROUTE FROM N. FOR RELIEF OF MAFEKING 127
MAFEKING RAILWAY STATION 139
DEVIATION BRIDGE AT VEREENIGING 153
HIGHLANDERS AT THE END OF A FORCED MARCH 160
MAP OF PORTION OF NATAL 175
MAP--JOHANNESBURG TO PRETORIA, &C. 186
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE--Vol. V.
MARCH 1900.
=31.=--Loss of British convoy and seven guns at Koorn Spruit.
APRIL 1900.
=4.=--Capture of British troops by the Boers near Reddersburg.
=5.=--General Villebois killed near Boshop, and party of Boer mercenaries captured by Lord Methuen.
General Clements received the submission of 4000 rebels.
British occupation of Reddersburg.
=7.=--Skirmish near Warrenton.
=9.=--Colonial Division attacked at Wepener.
=11.=--General Chermside promoted to command Third Division, vice General Gatacre, ordered home.
=20.=--Boer positions attacked at Dewetsdorp.
=23.=--General Carrington arrived at Beira.
=25.=--Wepener siege raised.
General Chermside occupied Dewetsdorp.
Bloemfontein Waterworks recaptured.
=26.=--Sir C. Warren appointed Governor of Griqualand West.
=27.=--Thabanchu occupied.
=28.=--Fighting near Thabanchu Mountain.
MAY 1900.
=1.=--General Hamilton captured Houtnek.
=5.=--British occupation of Brandfort.
Lord Roberts's further advance to the Vet River.
=6.=--The Vet River passed and Smaldeel occupied.
=7.=--General Hunter occupied Fourteen Streams.
=8.=--Ladybrand deserted by the Boers.
=9.=--Capture of Welgelegen.
Mafeking Relief Force reached Vryburg.
=10.=--Battle of Zand River.
Occupation of Ventersburg.
=12.=--Lord Roberts occupied Kroonstad without resistance.
Commandant Eloff attacked Mafeking, and was captured by Col. Baden-Powell.
=13.=--General Buller advanced towards the Biggarsberg.
=14.=--Occupation of Dundee.
=15.=--Occupation of Glencoe.
Mafeking Relief Force defeated the Boers at Kraaipan.
=16.=--Christiana occupied.
=17.=--General Ian Hamilton occupied Lindley.
Colonel Mahon, at the head of the relief force, entered Mafeking.
Lord Methuen entered Hoopstad.
=18.=--Occupation of Newcastle.
=20.=--Colonel Bethune's Mounted Infantry ambushed near Vryheid.
=22.=--General Ian Hamilton occupied Heilbron after a series of engagements. The main army, under Lord Roberts, pitched its tents at Honing Spruit, and General French crossed the Rhenoster to the north-west of the latter place.
=23.=--Rhenoster position turned.
=24.=--British Army entered the Transvaal, crossing the Vaal near Parys, unopposed.
=27.=--The passage of the Vaal was completed by the British Army.
=28.=--Orange Free State formally annexed under the title of Orange River Colony.
The Battle of Biddulph's Berg.
=29.=--Battle of Doornkop: Boers defeated.
Lord Roberts arrived at Germiston.
Kruger fled his capital at midnight amid the lamentations of the populace.
=30.=--Occupation of Utrecht by General Hildyard.
Sir Charles Warren defeated the enemy near Douglas.
=31.=--Battalion of Irish Yeomanry captured at Lindley.
The British flag hoisted at Johannesburg.
JUNE 1900.
=5.=--The British flag hoisted in Pretoria.
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