CHAPTER I

The Theatre of the War

CHAPTER II

The Opening Campaign in Natal to the Investment of Ladysmith (October 11—November 2)

CHAPTER III

The Colonies and the Transports

CHAPTER IV

The Western Frontier to Magersfontein and Stormberg. Operations of General French about Colesberg

CHAPTER V

The Natal Campaign from the Investment of Ladysmith through the Battle of Colenso

CHAPTER VI

The Natal Campaign. British Prepare for a Flanking Attack upon the Boers' Right at the Tugela. The Boer Assault on Ladysmith, January 6th

CHAPTER VII

Natal Campaign. The Unsuccessful British Attempts to Turn the Boers' Right Flank at Spion Kop and at Vaal Krantz

CHAPTER VIII

The Relief of Kimberley and of Ladysmith, and the Surrender of Cronje

public@vhost@g@html@files@20987@20987-h@20987-h-2.htm.html#page176" class="pginternal">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 cruiser Forte, 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, 275 et 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, 192 et 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, 177 et seq.
Naval brigade with guns from the Powerful gets into Ladysmith, 66.
Nelson's dictum on "five minutes of delay," 58, 130.
Newcastle occupied by the Boers 38.
New Zealand and the war, 75.
Nicholson's Nek, the disaster at 63-65.

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 5 P.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.