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5 Gaskell, With Lord Methuen in South Africa, p. 115.
6 Ibid., p. 116.
7 De Wet, Three Years War, pp. 137f.
8 Hamilton, Listening for the Drums, p. 240.
9 Ibid., p. 249.
10 Wilson, After Pretoria, V. 1., pp. 23f.
11 Quoted in Doyle, The Great Boer War, 3rd impression, p. 480.
12 Unpublished.
13 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 165.
Chapter 33. Advance to Komatipoort
1 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 187.
2 The Times History, V. 4, p. 452.
3 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 51.
4 Quoted in Bryant, Jackets of Green, p. 198.
5 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 88.
6 Quoted in Wilson, After Pretoria, V. 1, p. 140.
7 Included in Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China (U.S. War Department), p. 259.
Chapter 34. The End of the Second Act
1 Quoted in Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa, p. 322.
2 Black and White Budget, 26 September 1900.
3 Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, p. 1210n.
4 Hansard, 25 July 1900. Parliamentary Debates, 4th series, LXXXVI.
5 Cornish Times, 7 July 1900. Subsequent quotations describing this meeting are from the same source.
6 Birmingham Daily Mail, 19 December 1901.
7 Yorkshire Post, 9 March 1900.
8 See Kruger, Good-bye Dolly Gray, pp. 374f.
9 Black and White Budget, 8 December 1900.
10 Miller, A Captain in the Gordons, p. 115.
11 Younghusband, A Soldier’s Memories, p. 184.
Chapter 35. Commandos in Cape Colony
1 Quoted in Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa, p. 459.
2 Reprinted in Morning Leader, 17 September 1901.
3 Wilson, After Pretoria, V. 1, p. 494.
4 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, pp. 467f.
5 Wilson, After Pretoria, p. 704.
6 Quoted in Meintjes, Sword in the Sand, p. 157.
7 Ibid., p. 165.
8 Ibid., p. 171.
9 Ibid., pp. 177f.
10 Ibid., p. 187.
11 Johannesburg Star, 2 June 1898.
Chapter 36. Smuts’s Invasion of the Cape
1 Reitz, Commando, p. 169.
2 Ibid., p. 209.
3 Ibid., p. 219.
4 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 309.
5 Quoted in ibid., p. 315.
6 Ibid., p. 316
7 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, pp. 661f.
8 Reitz, Commando, pp. 223f.
9 Ibid., p. 231.
10 Ibid., p. 278.
11 Quoted in Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, p. 78.
12 Ibid., p. 79.
13 The Times History, V. 5, p. 131.
Chapter 37. Fighting the Guerrillas
1 Quoted in Anderson, Heroes of South Africa.
2 Fuller, The Last Gentlemen’s War, pp. 111f.
3 Ibid., p. 114.
4 Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, p. 530.
5 Quoted in private correspondence from George Aschman.
6 Miller, A Captain in the Gordons, p. 57.
7 Quoted in Popham, The Somerset Light Infantry, p. 94.
8 Miller, A Captain in the Gordons, p. 107. Letter is dated 13 September 1901.
9 May. Music of the Guns, p. 158.
10 Quoted in Smuts. Jan Christian Smuts, p. 68.
11 Quoted in Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa, pp. 467f.
12 Ibid., pp. 437f.
13 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, p. 27.
14 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, p. 525.
15 Quoted in Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa. p. 454.
16 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, p. 36.
17 Quoted in Parritt, The Intelligencers, p. 197.
18 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, p. 667.
19 Miller, A Captain in the Gordons, pp. 130f. Letter of 25 April 1902.
20 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 179.
21 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, pp. 163, 116.
22 Ibid., pp. 166f.
23 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 342.
Chapter 38. Soldiering on the Veld
1 Butler, Sir William Butler, p. 22.
2 [James, H.L.] “The Intelligence Officer,” On the Heels of De Wet, p. 46.
3 Miller, A Captain in the Gordons, p. 102. Letter of 5 August 1901.
4 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 112n.
5 Quoted in Howland, The Chase of De Wet, p. 110.
6 Quoted in Meintjes, De la Rey, pp. 179f.
7 Jackson, A Soldier’s Diary.
8 Phillips, With Rimington.
9 Sarah Raal, Met die Boere in die Veld. Quotation trans. by Maria Bosman.
10 Miller, A Captain of the Gordons, pp. 103f. Letter of 5 August 1901.
11 Younghusband, A Soldier’s Memories, pp. 181, 184.
12 Quoted in Meintjes, De la Rey, p. 233.
13 Black and White Budget, 16 March 1901.
14 Quoted in Wilson, After Pretoria, V. 2, p. 190.
15 [James, H.L.] “The Intelligence Officer,” On the Heels of De Wet.
16 Quoted in Pemberton, Battles of the Boer War, p. 170.
17 The Times History, V. 2, p. 34.
18 Younghusband, A Soldier’s Memories, pp. 187f.
19 Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, p. 548.
20 Anonymous, “A South African Trip,” Club Life, 4 May 1901. Quoted in Price, An Imperial War and the British Working Class, pp. 229f.
Chapter 39. Guerrilla Life
1 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 326.
2 Ibid., p. 285.
3 Ibid., p. 250.
4 [James, H.L.] “The Intelligence Officer,” On the Heels of De Wet, pp. 265f.
5 Miller, A Captain in the Gordons, p. 114.
6 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, pp. 161f.
7 U.S. War Department, Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China, pp. 240f.
8 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 158.
9 Ibid., p. 388.
10 Ibid., p. 198.
11 Ibid., p. 217.
12 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, p. 146.
13 Ibid., p. 165.
14 Blue Book, Cd 902.
15 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 138.
16 Ibid., p. 362.
17 Ibid., p. 333.
18 Ibid., p. 277.
19 Ibid., p. 300.
20 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, p. 418.
21 Schikkerling, Commando Courageous, p. 350.
22 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, pp. 265f.
23 Quoted in Wilson, After Pretoria, p. 954.
24 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, pp. 160f.
25 Quoted in Martin, The Concentration Camps 1900-1902, p. 14.
Chapter 40. The Concentration Camps and Emily Hobhouse
1 Quoted in Wilson, After Pretoria, V. 2, p. 413.
2 Quoted in Meintjes, General Louis Botha, p. 81.
3 Quoted in Magnus, Kitchener, p. 184. Kitchener’s letter dated 22 March 1901.
4 Quoted in Kruger, Good-bye Dolly Gray, p. 413.
5 Quoted in Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa, p. 569.
6 Ibid., p. 464.
7 Hobhouse, The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell, p. 102.
8 Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa, p. 579.
9 Quoted in Meintjes, Stormberg, p. 154.
10 De Wet, Three Years War, pp. 242f.
11 Jackson, A Soldier’s Diary.
12 Quoted in Leigh, Vereeniging, p. 50.
13 Blue Book, Cd 1791, V. 1, p. 9.
14 Personal correspondence from Mrs. Lillian du Preez.
15 Ibid.
16 Badenhorst, Tant’ Alie of Transvaal, p. 210.
17 Quoted in Leigh, Vereenigin
g, pp. 49f.
18 Quoted in Fisher, That Miss Hobhouse, p. 129.
19 Quoted in Napier Davitt, “The Concentrations Camps in South Africa” (pamphlet), p. 40.
20 Quoted in Fisher, That Miss Hobhouse, pp. 133f.
21 Ibid., pp. 130.
22 Blue Book, Cd 853.
23 Quoted in May, Music of the Guns, p. 163.
24 Blue Book, Cd 835.
25 Quoted in Arthur, General Sir John Maxwell, p. 96.
26 Quoted in Fisher, That Miss Hobhouse, p. 190.
27 Blue Book, Cd 819.
28 Quoted in Archives of South African History (1968). Report dated 23 November 1901.
29 Blue Book, Cd 819.
30 Quoted in Fisher, That Miss Hobhouse, p. 155.
31 Ibid., p. 157.
32 Ibid., pp. 161f.
Chapter 41. The Concentration Camps: The Ladies Committee
1 Blue Book, Cd 893, p. 43.
2 Ibid., p. 14.
3 Ibid., p. 129.
4 Ibid., p. 12.
5 Ibid. See pp. 33-38 for report on this camp.
6 Ibid., p. 156.
7 Quoted in Fisher, The Afrikaners, p. 161.
8 Quoted in Ferguson, American Diplomacy and the Boer War, p. 174.
9 Unpublished letter of Margaret Hulburd in possession of Mr. S. Beadle.
10 Quoted in Fisher, That Miss Hobhouse, p. 184.
11 Hopford, Twice Interned.
12 Letter to author from Mrs. Doris Heberden.
13 The Times History, V. 6, p. 25.
14 Quoted in Methuen, Peace or War in South Africa, p. 262.
15 Quoted in Martin, The Concentration Camps, p. 22.
Chapter 42. Prisoners of War
1 The Times History, V. 6, p. 292.
2 Benbow, “Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda.”
3 Black and White Budget, 16 June 1900.
4 Viljoen, An Exiled General, p. 281.
5 Quoted in Cleaver, A Young South African, p. 127.
6 Quoted in Badenhorst, Tant’ Alie of the Transvaal, p. 217.
7 Cleaver, A Young South African, p. 111.
8 Unpublished letter, dated 24 July 1901, in possession of Adv. G. E. Steyn.
9 Quoted in Cleaver, A Young South African. p. 116. The letter is dated 20 July 1900.
10 Quoted in Benbow, “Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda.”
11 Unpublished memoir of Senator G. M. Botha.
12 Quoted in Benbow, “Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda.”
13 Unpublished memoir of Senator G. M. Botha.
14 Quoted in Hassel, “The Boer Concentration Camps of Bermuda,” p. 10.
15 Quoted in Benbow, “Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda.”
16 Quoted in Badenhorst, Tant’ Alie of the Transvaal, p. 248.
17 Quoted in Cleaver, A Young South African, p. 173.
Chapter 43. Vereeniging: The Bitter End
1 Quoted in Meintjes, De la Rey, p. 250.
2 Reitz, Commando, p. 320.
3 Ibid., p. 321.
4 Quoted in De Wet, Three Years War, p. 412.
5 Quoted in Crafford, Jan Smuts, p. 53.
6 Quoted in “Melrose House” (booklet).
7 Sampson and Hamilton, Anti-Commando, pp. 179f.
8 Doyle, The Great Boer War, final edition, p. 735.
9 Jackson, A Soldier’s Diary.
10 Quoted in Wilson, After Pretoria, V. 2, p. 988.
11 De Wet, Three Years War, p. 391.
12 Ibid., pp. 275f.
13 The Times History, V. 5, p. viii.
Chapter 44. Epilogue: The Dust Settles
1 Worsfold, Lord Milner’s Work in South Africa, p. 538.
2 Doyle, The War in South Africa, final edition, p. 153.
3 The Times History, V. 6, p. 52.
4 Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, p. 548.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A virtually complete list of all books on the war published before 1909 is included in Volume 7 of The Times History of the War in South Africa. I have not duplicated this bibliography here, but I have included some of those works which I have found helpful as well as most of the more modern published sources in English. I have not included all of the South African, British, and American periodicals consulted, but where they are quoted in the text I have given the complete reference in the notes.
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