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INDEX
Abinger, Lt. Gen. Lord
Adams, John
Adye, Col. John
Afrikaans
Afrikaners(see also Boers); in British army; in Cape Colony. ; character; common names; in concentration camps; and Emily Hobhouse; at end of war; 1914 Rebellion; religion; treatment of natives
Airlie, Lord
Algoa Bay
Aliwal North
Allen, Ivie
Allenby, Maj. E. H. H.
Aloe Knoll
Amazon Corps
American Biograph Company
American Transvaal League of Paterson, N.J.
Americans(see also United States); and Boer War; in South Africa
Amery. S.
Anglo-Boer War(see also Anti-war movement; First Anglo-Boer War), assessed; British principles in; “gentlemen’s war,” ; popularity; and world opinion
Anley, Maj. F. Gore
Anstruther, Lt. Col. Philip Robert
Anti-war movement
Archibald, James F. J.
Argentina
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; at Magersfontein
Ashe, Dr. E. Oliver
Asiatics
Asquith, Herbert
Aspinall, Lt. E. T.
Atkins, Corp.
Atkins, John; on Buller
Atrocity stories
Australia and Australians; after Colenso; mutiny of; volunteer forces
Austria
Ava, Earl of
Awdry, Lt. Vere
Babtie, Maj. William
Badenhorst, Alida
Badenhorst, Berend
Badenhorst, F. S. “Frikkie,”
Baden-Powell, Col. Robert Stephenson Smyth “B.P.,” ; books by; career; and Mafeking siege
Baillie, F. D.
Bailward, Maj. A. C.
Baker, Bernard N.
Balfour, Arthur
Balloons
Bantu; in British army; and camps; death of children; at end of war; and franchise; in Kimberley; in Mafeking; in Transvaal
Bapedi
Barbed wire
Barnes, James
Barolong tribe
Barrow, Lt. Col. F. Edward
Barton, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey; at Colenso
Barton, Maj. Nathanial
Basuto
Battersby, H. F. Prevost
Batts, Rev. Henry James
Baxter, Lt. Col. Charles
Beamish, Lt. Col. R. T.
Beatson, Lt. Col. Stuart
Becker, Marthinus
Bechuanaland
Bechuanaland Rifles
Belfast camp
Bell. G. H.
Belmont, battle of
Benson, Lt. Col. George Elliot, at Magersfontein; independent column
Bentinck, Lady Cecil
Bentinck, Lady Charles
Bereton, Katherine
Bergandal, battle of
Bergerac, Cyrano de
Bermuda prisoner-of-war camps
Bethlehem commando
Bethulie; camp at
Bethulie commando
Bewicke-Copley, Maj. Robert Calverley Arlington
Beyers. F.
Beyers, Christiaan
Bezuidenhout, Frederick Cornelius
Bezuidenhout, Piet
Biggarsberg
Bigge, Sir Arthur
Birdwood, Maj. W. R.
Birkenstock.
Bisset, John
Black Watch; at Magersfontein
Black Week
Blake, “Col.” John Y. Fillimore
Blockhouse system
Bloemfontein ; concentration camp at; and British campaign; British takeover; Boer headquarters; and Buller; Conference; Convention; epidemic; and Kitchener; and railway line, ; ; surrender; and water supply
Blood, Gen. Bindon
Bloomfield, Lt. Col. Charles
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
Boer army (see also Guerrilla commandos; Guerrilla warfare; battle names; individual commanders; Volunteer forces), advantage over British; composition and equipment; defeats and demoralization; and humanity; independence; and Krygsraads; new leadership and reorganization; staatsartillerie; supply lines; tactics and strategy
Boers (see also Afrikaners; “Cape Dutch;” Concentration camps; names of leaders; Woman and children), early history; farms and land; as fighters; first peace offer; flee to Lourenço Marques; hopes of foreign intervention; and independence and liberty; and Kitchener “drives,” ; and Milner; politics and government; profile of; religion; renegades; resettlement; resolution and purpose; self-government; slavery; surrender; ultimatum on war; Vereeniging peace talks; voortrekkers and first war; war origins; war governments; and Zulu battle
Boer War, see Anglo-Boer War
Border Regiment
Borrius, Jack
Boshof, battle of
Bosman, Julie Hennie and Bessie
Bosman, Capt. J. W. “Koos,”
Bosman, Jacobus Petrus
Botha, Annie
Botha, Christiaan
Botha, Gerhardus
Botha, Hans
Botha, Helen
Botha, Cdt. Gen. Louis; and army reorganization; Bergandal battle; on British bravery; career; Colenso strategy; destroys Benson’s column; at Diamond Hill;
and farm burning; and Ladysmith; opposes war; peace talks and terms; becomes Premier and Prime Minister; replaces Joubert; responsibility for camps; at Spion Kop; at Tabanyama; at Vereeniging; after the war; and white flag
Botha, Pieter
Bouwer, Ben
Bowlby, Anthony
Boyle, Capt. Cecil
Brabant, Gen. E. Y.
Brabant’s Horse
Braithwaite, Capt. Walter
Brand, Johannes Henricus
Brandwater Basin, battle of
British Army (see also British General Staff; Communications; Medical facilities and practices; Military courts and martial law; Railways and supply lines; specific battles, regiments, officers, etc.; Volunteer forces), artillery; blockhouses; under Buller; cavalry; and concentration camps; columns and drives; conservatism of; counter-guerrilla tactics; expeditionary forces; as fighters; in first Boer war; good will; and hand-uppers; height requirement; illusory end of war; infantry; intelligence; under Kitchener; logistical problems; musketry training; nonwhites in; officers; rations; reconaissance techniques; reinforcements; “regular” soldiers; under Roberts; staff system; strength; under White
British General Staff; and contempt of Boers; and Spion Kop blame
British Empire, see Great Britain
British South Africans
Brits, Coen
Broadfoot, Margret
Broadwood, Brig. Gen. R. G.
Broderick, St. John
Bronkhorstspruit
Brooke, Capt. Ronald
Brooks, Capt.
Broughton, Rhoda, Cometh Up as a Flower
Brown, Cole
Buchan, John
Buchanan-Riddell, Lt. Col. Robert
Buffalo River
Buffs
Buller, Gen. Sir Redvers Henry; and battle of Bergandal; on Boer army; campaign strategy; career and qualifications; at Colenso; and after; indecisiveness and mistakes; and relief of Ladysmith; on Ladysmith defenses and position; replaced; returns home; and Roberts; solicitude for troops; and Spion Kop disaster; and Gen. Warren
Buller, Tremayne
Bullock, Lt. Col. George
Bülow, Bernhard von
Burdett-Coutts, W. L. A. B.
Burger, Gen. Schalk; acting President of Transvaal; at Vereeniging
Burleigh, Bennett
Burne, Lt. G.
Burne-Jones, Lady, née Georgiana MacDonald
Burnham, Maj. Frederick Russell
Butler, Maj. Gen. Sir William; attempt to avert war
Byng, Julian (later Lord)
Bywoners
Caesar’s Camp hill
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
Canada and Canadians; at Paardeberg; “Cape Boy Contingent,” ; Cape Colony; Afrikaners in; and Boer strategy; Boer invasion of; and Boer commandos; Buller campaign strategy; concentration camps in; and divided families; Eastern; fears of rebellion; farm burning in; and Mafeking; imposition of martial law; and Milner; peace talks and terms; Smuts in; and Stormberg; support for Boers; in Union of South Africa; at war’s end; see also Cape rebels
“Cape Dutch,”
Cape Police
Cape Mounted Rifles
Cape rebels; amnesty for
Cape Town; and Buller reception; E. Hobhouse retained in; Ladysmith relief; fear of rebellion; and Roberts and Kitchener; refugees in
Carleton, Lt. Col. Frank
Carolina Commando
Carter, Thomas Fortescue
Carver, F. G. M.
Casualties; from disease; at Ladysmith; at Paardeberg; naval brigade at Rooilaagte; at Spion Kop; see also other battles
Cavalry, see Hussars; Lancers; Dragoon Guards
Cayzer, Capt. John
Cecil, Lady Edward (Lady Violet); and Milner
Cecil, Maj. Lord Edward
Celliers, Jan
Ceylon; prisoner-of-war camp in
Chadwick, Trooper
Chamberlain, Joseph; attacked; and Botha’s peace terms; career; and “Helot’s Dispatch,” ; on Johannesburg residents; and Milner; and renegade Boers; responsibility for war
Chamier, George
Chance, Maj. Henry
Cheyne, Wilson
Childers, Erskine
Children, see Women and children; Concentration camps
Chinese coolies
Churchill, Jack
Churchill, Lady Randolph
Churchill, Winston; captured; elected to Parliament; quoted on: Boers; Brit. “regulars,” ; Buller; Chamberlain; Chinese question ; Gatacre; on Ladysmith relief; mailbag looting; Milner; Pretoria; refugees; Roberts; Spion Kop; Steephens
CIV (City of London Imperial Volunteers)
Cleaver, Field Cornet F. G. M.
Cleaver, Mrs. Mostyn
Clement, Lt. Joseph
Clements, Maj. Gen. Ralph
Clery, Maj. Gen. Cornelius Francis; career; at Colenso; at Hlangwane; at Tabanyama
Cobden, Richard
Cockrane, Tom
Codrington, Lt. Col. Alfred
Coetzee, Benjamin
Coetzee, Field Cornet
Coetzee, Hansie
Coetzee, Hendrik
Coke, Maj. Gen. John Talbot; Coke’s brigade
Coldstream Guards
Colenso, battle of; aftermath; Roberts on; wounded and casualties
Colesburg
Colley, Maj. Gen. Sir George
Colonial Division
Colonials, see Australia; Canada; etc.
Coloureds; in British army; in concentration camps; and death of children; and franchise; in Kimberley
Columns; Benson’s independent; “new model drives,” ; scrambling of
Colville, Gen. Sir Henry; at Paardeberg; at Sanna’s Post
Colyn, Lambert (Lemuel Colaine)
Commission on the War in South Africa
Commandos see Guerrilla commandos; names of Boer leaders
Communications: British failures and inadequacy; British communication lines; equipment; Kaffirgrams; during Ladysmith siege
Conan Doyle, A.; quoted on: Afrikaners; Lord Airlie; Benson’s column; Buller; changed attitudes; Colenso defeat; concentration camps; Derbyshire battalion; disease; farm destruction; Gen. French; Gen. Gatacre; on hospitals; Itala battle; Kitchener’s threat; last death of war; mailbag looting; Magersfontein massacre; Paardeberg strategy, Pretoria Convention; reservations for Boers; C. Rhodes; Roberts’ forces; Talana battle; uitlanders; Wagon Hill; Zarps; Zoutpansbergers
Concentration camps; conditions in; death rates; discrimination and friction; and E. Hobhouse; investigations and censure; native camps; responsibility for; and schools and English teachers
Congreve, Capt. Walter
Connaught, Duke of
Connaught Rangers
Conyngham-Greene, W.
Coode, Lt. Col. John
Cooke, Lt. Col. Ernest
Coolidge, John
Cooper, Lt. Col. Charles
Cordua, Hans
Cornwallis-West, Lt. George
Cosby, Corporal Murray
Court, Lt. Col. Charles à (afterwards Repington)
Courtney, Leonard
Cowat, R. L.
Cox, Lt. Ernest
Cox, Henry
Cranborne, Lady
Craw, Isabella
Crespigny, Sir Claude and Lady de
Creusot gun
Crimean War
Crofton, Lt. Col. Malby
Cromer, Lord (Sir Evelyn Baring)
Cronjé, Gen. A. P.
Cronjé, Pieter Arnoldus “Piet,” ; career; disgrace; laager conditions; and Mafeking siege; leaves Magersfontein; at Magersfontein; blocks Methuen; and Paardeberg battle; as prisoner; surrender; wife
Cronjé, Pieter
Cuba
Da Gama, Vasco
Dalgety, Col. E. H.
Danton, Sgt. W. E.
Davies, Maj. W. D. “Karri,”
Davies
Lt. W. E.
Davis, Richard Harding; on Boers; on Boer retreat; and British list of distinction; on Earl of Ava; on Ladysmith defensive position
Dawson, Col. H. L.
Deane, Lucy
De Beers Company
Decency and humanity of military forces
Delagoa Bay
De la Rey, Adriaan (Adaan)
De la Rey, Jacobus Herculaas “Koos,” ; at Belmont; at Brandwater Basin; on Cronjé’s surrender; determination; at Diamond Hill; at Driefontein; humanity; killed; Magersfontein trench scheme; capture of Methuen; battle of Modder River; opposes war; and peace talks; personality; spares British prisoners; at surrender; wife Nonnie
Derbyshire Regiment; 4th Battalion
De Villiers, Commandant C. J.
De Villiers, Jacob
De Villiers, Rocco
Devonshire Regiment
De Vries, Field Cornet
De Wet, Adolphus
De Wet, Christiaan; background and career; and Bloemfontein; and brother Piet; at Brandwater Basin; on concentration camps; and discipline; at Driefontein; on farm burning; in government; hunted; looting and Roodewal; at Mostert’s Hoek; and 1914 Rebellion; at Paardeberg; and peace; at Sanna’s Post; sons; on surrender and war; at Waterval Drift; worst decision of
De Wet, Christiaan
De Wet, Cootie
De Wet, Isaac
De Wet, Piet; as hands-upper; surrender
Diamond Field Horse
Diamond Hill, battle of
Dickson, W. K. L.
Dietrich, Elsa
Digna, Osman
Dillon, John
Dingaan, King of Zulus
Dingaan’s Day (Day of the Covenant)
Disease (see also Enteric fever), in concentration camps; in Kimberley; in Ladysmith; from Modder River; at Paardeberg; and sanitary facilities
Dixon, Gen. H. G.
Diyatalowa prisoner-of-war camp
Dogs and pets
Doornkop; spruit
Douglas, Col. Charles
Douglas, Lt. H. E. M.
Douglas, R. B.
Doveton, Maj.
Dragoon Guards: 1st; 5th; 7th
Drakensberg Range
Driefontein, battle of
Dublin Fusiliers; at Colenso; at Talana
Duff, Col. Beauchamp
Duke of Cambridge’s Own
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Duncan, Capt. Stuart
Dundee; geographic description
Dundonald, Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochraneh Earl of; background; at Colenso; at Hlangwane; at Tabanyama ridge
Dunlop, Professor James
Dunn, John
Dunville, T. E.