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6 New York Journal, 7 January 1900.
7 Black and White Budget, 30 December 1899.
8 Quoted in Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon, p. 77. Letter is dated 17 October 1899.
9 Blunt, My Diaries, V. 1, p. 341.
10 Webb, Our Partnership, ed. B. Drake and M. I. Cole (New York, 1948).
11 Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, V. 2, p. 7.
12 Rice, Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice, pp. 303f. Letter is dated 20 December 1899.
13 Quoted in Hamilton, The Happy Warrior, p. 145.
14 Quoted in James, Lord Roberts, pp. 262f.
15 Letter from Lord Lansdowne to Lady Aileen Roberts, 11 May 1921. Quoted in James, Lord Roberts, p. 266.
Chapter 18. Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener
1 The Amery quotation is from James, Lord Roberts, p. v; the Herbert quotation is from The Times History, V. 3, p. 332.
2 Quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd series, V. 3, p. 441n.
3 Younghusband, A Soldier’s Memories, pp. 228f.
Chapter 19. Tabanyama: Prelude to Spion Kop
1 Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, V. 1, Pt. 2, p. 1059.
2 The Times History, V. 3, p. 221.
3 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1, p. 248.
4 Quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 184.
5 Quoted in Williams, The Life of General Sir Charles Warren, p. 251.
6 Burne, With the Naval Brigade in Natal, p. 3.
7 Quoted in Dundonald, My Army Life, p. 125n.
8 Report of the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa. Buller’s remarks quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 202.
9 Barnard, Military History Journal, V. 2, No. 1, June 1971.
10 Churchill, written 23 January 1900 and published in Morning Post, 17 February 1900.
11 Quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 207.
Chapter 20. Spion Kop
1 The Times History, V. 3, p. 239.
2 Quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 211.
3 Hiley and Hassell, The Mobile Boer, p. 120.
4 Reitz, Commando, pp. 73f.
5 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1. p. 296.
6 Churchill, written 23 January 1900 and published in Morning Post, 17 February 1900.
7 Letter from Benjamin Walker to his father, J. B. M. Walker. Unpublished.
8 Reitz, Commando, pp. 76f.
9 Quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 226.
10 The Times History, V. 3, pp. 278f.
11 Ibid., p. 282.
12 Pearse, Four Months Besieged, p. 215.
13 Reitz, Commando, p. 77.
14 The Times History, V. 3, p. 298.
Chapter 21. After Spion Kop: Vaal Krantz
1 Bernard, Military History Journal, V. 2, No. 1, June 1971.
2 Quoted in Ramsford, The Batlle of Spion Kop, p. 8.
3 Standard and Diggers News, 29 January 1900.
4 Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 174.
5 Quoted in Bernard, Military History Journal, V. 2, No. 1, June 1971, p. 6.
6 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 1, p. 304.
7 New York Times, 9 November 1899.
8 The Nursing Record and Hospital World, 18 November 1899.
9 Quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 276.
10 Quoted in Butler, Sir Redvers Buller, pp. 77f.
11 Quoted in The Times History, V. 3, p. 305n. and Blue Book, Cd 968, p. 17. This is from Buller’s covering note on Warren’s dispatch.
12 Quoted in Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd series, V. 3, p. 533n.
13 Quoted in Mahan, The Story of the War in South Africa 1899–1900, p. 260.
14 Churchill, Frontiers and Wars, p. 437.
15 The Times History, V. 3, p. 317.
16 Quoted in Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 6.
17 The Times History, V. 3, p. 323.
18 Ibid., pp. 323f.
Chapter 22. The Great Flank March
1 “M.I.,” Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, p. 538.
2 De Wet, Three Years War, p.48.
Chapter 23. The Siege of Kimberley
1 Ashe, Besieged by the Boers, p. 34.
2 Unpublished diary of Winifred Heberdon.
3 Blue Book, Cd 1790, V. 2, p. 119.
4 Quoted in O’Meara, Kekewich in Kimberley, p. 115.
5 Ibid., p. 112.
6 Reproduced in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 388.
7 Daily Mail, 17 February 1900.
Chapter 24. Paardeberg
1 The Times History, V. 3, p. 424.
2 Quoted in Magnus, Kitchener, p. 167.
3 The Times History, V. 3, p. 438.
4 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 411.
5 The Times History, V. 3, p. 454.
6 Quoted in Meintjes, De la Rey, pp. 156f.
7 Quoted in Kruger, Good-bye Dolly Gray, pp. 241f.
8 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 63.
9 Blue Book, Cd 453, p. 23.
10 Reported by a Mr. Hands in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 430.
11 Maxse, Seymour Vandeleur, p. 264.
12 Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 433.
13 O‘Meara, Kekewich in Kimberley, p. 345.
14 Battersby, In the Web of War, p. 73.
15 U.S. War Department, Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China, p. 37.
16 Battersby, In the Web of War, p. 65.
17 Anonymous, A Subaltern’s Letters to His Wife, p. 50.
18 Barnes, The Great War Trek, pp. 164f.
19 South African Medical Journal, V. 5, No. 39, October 1971.
20 Quoted in Leigh, Vereeniging, p. 43.
21 Quoted in Meintjes, Sword in the Sand, pp. 72f. Letter dated 2 March 1900.
22 Quoted in Meintjes, De la Rey, p. 157.
23 Quoted in James, Lord Roberts, p. 295.
24 The Times History, V. 3, p. 457.
Chapter 25. The Siege of Ladysmith
1 The Times History, V. 3, p. 150.
2 Quoted in Butler, Sir William Butler, p. 416.
3 Davis, With Both Armies in South Africa, p. 26.
4 Quoted in Symons, Buller’s Campaigns, p. 169.
5 Souza, No Charge for Delivery, pp. 74f.
6 Ibid., p. 184.
7 Quoted in Furneaux, News of War, p. 193.
8 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, p. 23.
9 Ibid., p. 58.
10 Steevens, From Capetown to Ladysmith, pp. 122f., 125.
11 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, p. 60.
12 Unpublished letter in possession of Buller Willis.
13 Diary of Isabella Craw.
14 Quoted in Maurice, The Life of General Lord Rawlinson, pp. 47f.
15 Diary of Isabella Craw.
16 Unpublished letter in possession of Buller Willis.
17 Steevens, From Capetown to Ladysmith, p. 135.
18 Pearse, Four Months Besieged, p. 46.
19 Maurice, The Life of General Lord Rawlinson, p. 48.
20 Quoted in Furneaux, News of War, p. 201.
21 Davis, With Both Armies in South Africa, p. 37.
22 Pearse, Four Months Besieged, p. 226.
23 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, pp. 56f.
24 Quoted in Rifle Brigade Chronical, 1958, pp. 63–65.
25 Black and White Budget, 14 April 1900.
26 Pienaar, With Steyn and De Wet, p. 28.
27 Doyle, The Great Boer War, 3rd impression, p. 230.
28 Hamilton, Listening for the Drums, p. 238.
29 Gough, Soldiering On, p. 72.
30 Quoted in Hamilton, The Happy Warrior, pp. 177f.
31 The Times History, V. 3, p. 515.
32 Ibid., p. 529.
33 Quoted in Davis, Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, p. 273.
34 Reitz, Commando, p. 90.
35 Hiley and Hassell, The Mobile Boer, p. 147.
36 Quoted in Beck, History of South Africa and the Boer-British War, p. 504.
37 Quoted in Churchill Winston S. Churchill, V. 1, Pt. 2, p. 1153.
38 Printed sheet in Jackdaw, No. 68.
39 Black and White Budget, 9 June 1900.
40 Gaskell, With Lord Methuen in South Africa, pp. 23f.
41 Churchill, Frontiers and Wars, pp. 492f.
42 Diary of Isabella Craw.
43 Letter reproduced in facsimile in Butler, Sir Redvers Buller, opposite p. 84.
Chapter 26. Bloemfontein
1 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 69.
2 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, p. 158.
3 Anonymous, A Subaltern’s Letters to His Wife, p. 226.
4 Ibid., p. 7.
5 Quoted in Doyle, The Great Boer War, 3rd impression, pp. 366f.
6 Quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd series, V. 3, pp. 511f.
7 Gaskell, With Lord Methuen in South Africa, p. 54.
8 Trans. by Adv. G. E. Steyn in letter to the author.
9 Gaskell, With Lord Methuen in South Africa, pp. 3 If, 33.
10 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 178.
11 Blue Book, Cd 457, V. 1.
12 Blue Book, Cd 1790, V. 1.
13 Doyle, The Great Boer War, 3rd impression, p. 375.
14 Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith, p. 32.
15 Churchill, Frontiers and Wars, p. 418.
16 “The Parting of the Columns,” Rudyard Kipling’s Verse.
17 Blue Book, Cd 1790, V. 1.
18 Blue Book, Cd 454.
19 Blue Book, Cd 1789.
20 Black and White Budget, 18 August 1900.
21 Ibid., 15 September 1900.
22 Quoted in Martin, The Concentration Camps, p. 27.
23 Written 29 May and published in The Times on 29 June 1900.
24 Cape Times, 23 June 1900, and The Times, 20 July 1900.
25 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 657.
26 Blue Book, Cd 455.
27 This and subsequent quotations, except where noted, are from Blue Book, Cd 454.
28 Quoted in The Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd series, V. 3, p. 529.
29 Quoted in Arthur, General Sir John Maxwell, p. 87.
30 Milner, My Picture Gallery, p. 180.
Chapter 27. Decisions at Kroonstad.
1 Miller, A Captain of the Gordons, p. 38.
2 Jackson, A Soldier’s Diary.
3 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 78.
4 Steyn’s memoirs, trans. for the author by Adv. G. E. Steyn.
5 Seiner, Franks, Esinnerungen einer Burenkampfers. Quoted in The Times History, V. 3, p. 73n.
6 Included in Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China (U.S. War Department), p. 123.
7 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, pp. 30f. and 48.
8 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 27.
9 Hiley and Hassell, The Mobile Boer, p. 159.
10 Lyttelton, Eighty Years, p. 206.
Chapter 28. The Boer Revival
1 Quoted in Carrington, Rudyard Kipling, p. 309.
2 De Wet, Three Years War, pp. 89f.
3 Black and White Budget, 26 May 1900.
4 Quoted in Smithers, The Man Who Disobeyed, p. 69.
5 De Wet, Three Years War, pp. 104f.
Chapter 29. On the March to Pretoria
1 Quoted in James, Lord Roberts, p. 316.
2 Included in Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China (U.S. War Department), p. 70.
3 Quoted in James, Lord Roberts, p. 317n.
4 The Times History, V. 4, p. 85.
5 Churchill, Frontiers and Wars, p. 544.
6 The Times History, V. 4, p. 152.
7 Battersby, In the Web of War, p. 211.
Chapter 30. Mafeking
1 Gardner, Mafeking, p. 54.
2 “The Seer,” in Club Life, 23 May 1900.
3 Black and White Budget, 23 June 1900.
4 Beck, History of South Africa and the Boer-British War, p. 433.
5 Black and White Budget, 23 June 1900.
6 Quoted in Hillcourt and Lady Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell, p. 59.
7 Milner, My Picture Gallery, pp. 125f.
8 Gardner, Mafeking, p. 230.
9 Neilly, Besieged with B-P, p. 91.
10 Plaatje, The Diary of Sol T. Plaatje, pp. 35f. Entry for 8 December 1899.
11 Black and White Budget, 21 April 1900.
12 Lady Sarah Wilson, South African Memories, p. 151. Subsequent quotations of Lady Sarah in this chapter are from this book.
13 Souza, No Charge for Delivery, pp. 164f.
14 Ibid., p. 165.
15 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 602.
16 Quoted in Gardner, Mafeking, p. 109.
17 Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 72.
18 Plaatje, The Diary of Sol T. Plaatje, p. 77. Entry for 20 January 1900.
19 Neilly, Besieged with B-P, pp. 227-330.
20 Plaatje, The Diary of Sol T. Plaatje, p. 122. Entry for 12 March 1900.
21 Quoted in Neilly, Besieged with B-P.
22 Ibid., p. 98.
23 Souza, No Charge for Delivery, p. 26.
24 Barnes, The Great War Trek, pp. 350f.
25 Quoted in Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, pp. 619f.
26 Ibid., p. 626.
Chapter 31. Pretoria,
1 Archibald, Blue Shirt and Khaki.
2 Quoted in Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, pp. 54f.
3 Archibald, Blue Shirt and Khaki.
4 Batts, Pretoria from Within During the War, p. 164.
5 Reitz, Commando, p. 109.
6 Quoted in Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, p. 56.
7 Included in Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China (U.S. War Department), p. 220.
8 Churchill, Frontiers and Wars, p. 555.
9 Quoted in Meintjes, General Louis Botha, p. 69.
10 Battersby, In the Web of War, p. 222.
11 Private correspondence. Maria Bosman to author, 30 November 1971.
12 Batts, Pretoria from Within During the War, p. 177.
13 Ibid., p. 192.
14 Sergeant Wade’s letter was dated 18 December 1899 and was printed in Black and White Budget, 2 June 1900.
15 Wilson, With the Flag to Pretoria, V. 2, p. 655.
16 Souza, No Charge for Delivery, pp. 42f.
17 Quoted in Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, pp. 57f.
18 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, p. 90.
19 Brandt, The Petticoat Commando, p. 97.
20 Quoted in James, Lord Roberts, p. 314.
21 Quoted in Meintjes, General Louis Botha, p. 75.
Chapter 32. After Pretoria: Roodewal and Brandwater Basin
1 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 135.
2 Ibid.
3 Pienaar, With Steyn and De Wet, p. 107.
4 Morning Post, 25 July 1900.