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Patterson, A. B. “Banjo,”
Peace negotiations
Pearse, H. H. S.
Pecci, Count
Pen Hoek
Penn Symons, Maj. Gen. Sir William
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pepworth Hill
Perrin. H.
Pettersen-Janek, Hjalmar
Philippines
Phillips, Capt. Henry
Phillips, Capt. L. March
Phipps-Hornby, Maj. Edmund
Pickwood, Lt. Col. Edwin
Pienaar, Christina and Johannes
Pienaar, Jack
Pienaar, Philip
Pietermaritzburg
Pietersburg
Piet Retief commando
Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho; novel, Mhudi
Plowden, Pamela
Plumbe, Maj. John
Plumer, Brigadier, H. C. O.
Plumer, Lt. Col. Herbert
Pohl, Frederick
Pohl, Stephen and Willie
Pole-Carew, Gen. R.
Pom pom
Poore, Lady Florence
Poplar Grove, battle of
Port Elizabeth
Porter, Col. T. C.
Portuguese
Porchefstroom; camp
Potgieter, F. J.
Pretoria; Boers surrender; Boer women in; burgher “camps”; British campaign; British prisoners in; Diamond Hill battle; peace talks; Roberts occupation of
Pretoria Convention
Pretoria Commando
Pretoria Mounted Police
Pretorius, Andries
Pretorious, M. W.
Pretyman, Gen. Sir George
Price, Col. H. S.
Prince of Wales
Princess of Wales
Prinsloo, Hendrik
Prinsloo, Jacobus
Prinsloo, Marthinus
Prinsloo, Commandant Gen.
Prior, Melton
Prisoners and prisoner of war camps; camp conditions and life; held by Boers; released by Boers; taken by British; escapes; newspapers in camps; relief organizations; at war’s end
Protectorate Regiment
Prothero, Capt.
Queen’s chocolate
Queen’s Infantry
Queensland Mounted Infantry
Raal, Sarah
Railway Pioneer Regiment
Railways and supply lines; blockhouse system; convoy abandoned
Ralph, Julian
Rand (Witwatersrand)
Rawlinson, Lord Henry
Red crosses
Reddersburg
Reed, Capt. Hamilton
Reform Committee
Reichmann, Capt. Carl
Reitz, Denys; career; as guerrilla; at Spion Kop
Reitz, Francis W.
Reitz, Hjalmar
Reitz, Joubert
Reitz (town)
Repatriation department
Retief, Pieter
Republics, see Voortrekker republics
Rhenoster River, battle at
Rhodes, Cecil; and Jameson Raid; and Kimberley siege
Rhodes, Col. Frank
Rhodesia
Rice, Cecil Spring
Rice, Capt. Gerard
Richardson, Col. Wodehouse D.
Richiardi, Cumillo
Riebeck, Johan (Jan) van
Riet River
Rifle Brigade
Rimington’s Guides
Roberts, Gen. Sir Abraham
Roberts, Aileen
Roberts, Lt. the Honourable Frederick S.
Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh t Baron of Kandahar; annexation of Orange Free State and Transvaal; head of army; at Bloemfontein; and Buller; career and personality; thinks war ended; leniency towards Boers; Paardeberg and Cronje; Pretoria; pursuit of Boer leaders; and Rhodes; into Transvaal
Roberts, Lady
Roberts, Horse
Robertse, Frans
Robertson, Capt. E. R.
Robertson, Field Marshal William
Robinson, Sir Hercules
Rocke, Lt. Cyril
Romer, Sir Robert
Roodewal
Rooilaagte, battle of
Roos, Tielman Johannes de Villiers
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roslyn, Lord
Rothschild, Lord
Roux, Gen. Paul Hendrik
Rouxville commando
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Engineers
Royal Horse Artilley Batteries; “G,” ; “U,” ; “Q”
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Royal Lancaster Regiment
Royal Marines; see also Naval Brigade
Royal Navy
Royal Scots
Riuter
Russia and Russians
Rutherford, Col. N. J. C.
Rutherford, Dr. Nathan
St. Helena pow camp
Salisbury, Lord Robert
Salt, Lt. George
Sampson, Victor
Sanna’s Post, battle of
Sansom, Dr. C. L.
Santos-Dumont, Alberto
Sargant, E. B.
Saunders, W. A.
Scandinavians
Scarlett, Dr. the Honourable Ella Campbell
Scheepers, Gideon
Scheepers, Jacobus and Sophia
Shikkerling, Roland
Schiller, Friedrich von
Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Victor of
Schlosberg, Freda
Schoeman, J. H.
Schofield, Capt. Harry
Schreiner, Olive
Schreiner, W. P.
Schumann, J. H. L.
Schutte, Pieter
Schweizer Reneke
Schwikkard, Lt.
Scotland
Scots Fusiliers
Scots Greys
Scots Guards
Scott-Chisholme, Col. John
Scott-Moncrieff, Maj. William
Scottish Horse
Seaforth Highlanders
Seeley, Capt. James
Selborne, Lord William
Senekal, Cecilia
Seymour, Louis Irving
Shaul, Cpl. John
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Capt. Frederick
Shepstone, Theophilus
Sheridan, Lt. Richard Brinsley
Shrapnel Henry
Shropshire Light Infantry
Simonstown pow camp
Slabbert, M. J.
Slachter’s Nek
Slocum, Capt. Joshua
Slocum, Capt. S. L’H.
Smit, Nicolaas
Smith, Sir Harry
Smith, James Francis
Smith, Johannes
Smith-Dorrien, Maj. Gen. Horace
Smithfield commando
Smuts, Isie
Smuts, Jan; career and personality; and collapse of Boer army; as guerrilla commando; and peace; and reorganization period
Smuts, Gen. Tobias
Snyman, Gen. J. P.
Somerset Light Infantry
South Africa; history to beginning of war; land and people; Republic of; Union of See also Afrikaners; Boers
South African Conciliation Committee
South African Indian Ambulance Corps
South African Light Horse
South African Women and Children’s Distress Fund
South Lancashire Regiment
Spain
Spender, Harold
Spens, Col. James
Spies
Spion Kop; battle of; aftermath
Spragge, Col. B.
Springfontein camp
Staatsartillerie, see Boer army
Standerton; camp
Stanley, Lord
Stanley, Pvt.
Stanley, Henry M.
Stead, W. T. 314; books and newspapers
Steenekamp, Commandant, Lucas
Steevens, G. W.
Stent, Vere
Stephanson’s brigade
Sternberg, Count von
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Stewart, Capt. Charles
Steyn, Colin
Steyn, Advocate Gladys
Steyn, Marthinus Theunis; attempts to avert war; evades capture; and peace; portable government of; perseverance of; sickness and death; at Vereeniging
Steyn, Pieter Gysburt
Steyn, Tibbie
Steyn, Willie
Steytler, George and Lourens
Stopford, Lt. Col. Horace
Stormberg Junction; battle of
Streatfield, Col. Henry
Stuart, Mrs. K. H. R.
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
Surrender; document
SutherlandLt.
Swanepoel, Hans
Swart, C. R.
Swazis
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Tabanyama ridge
Talana; battle of
Tasmanians
Taylor, Maj. Philip
Tohrengula Hill, battle of
Teachers and schools
Teller, Senator Henry Moor (U.S.)
Temple, Lt. William
Terrorism and torture
Thackery, Lt. Col. Thomas
Theron, Danie
Third Cavalry Brigade
Thirteenth Brigade
Thorneycroft, Lt. Col. Alexander W.
Three Tree Hill
The Times History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902,; quoted; on Bantu; on British regulars; on Buller; on Spion Kop
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Transvaal; army of; and blockhouse system; early British rule; camps in; defeat; gold and uitlanders; guerrilla war; Kruger and Joubert; peace talks; Roberts’ invasion of; self-government and Union; towards war; war govt.
Transvaal Political Association
Tree, Mrs. Beerbohm
Trekker republics, see Voortrekker republics
Treves, Dr. Frederick
Trevor, Maj. Tudor C.
Trichardt, Cdt. Piet
Tucker, Lt. Gen. Charles
Tucker, J. E.
Tucker, W. K.
Tugela River; Boers on; British on; and battle of Colenso
Turkey
Twain, Mark
Tweebosch
Twin Peaks
Twyford, Maj. Ernest
Uitlanders; franchise for; Milner and; refugees
Uniform problem, see Guerrilla Commandos
Uniondale
Unionist Party (Brit.)
United States; see also Americans
Utrect commando
Vaale Krantz hill, battle of
Vaal River
Vandeleur, Seymour
Van de Merwe, Jan
Van der Veldt, Johannes
Van Deventer, Jacobus ff.
Vane, Capt. Francis Fletcher
Van Gogh, Cor and Vincent
Van Heardon, Alan and Petronella
Van Miekerk, Cdt. C. A.
Van Oostrun, O.
Van Rensburg, Niklaas
Van Rensburg, Stompie
Van Riet, G. J.
Van Warmelo, Johanna
Van Wouw, Anton
Van Zyl, Louis Jacobus
Veld; British soldier in; guerrillas; at war’s end; women and
Venter’s Spruit
Vercuel, A. J.
Vereeniging; camp; peace talks
Vermaak, Field Cornet Ignatias Utrecht
Verner, Col. Willoughby
Vertur, Capt. Naunton
Victoria, Queen of England; and Colenso defeat; Empire and; gifts to soldiers; and illusory end of war; and women in S. Africa
Victoria Cross
Victorian Mounted Rifles
Viljoen, Gen. Ben
Viljoen, Jan
Viljoen, Pieter and Henning
Viljoen, Petrus
Vilonel, Frans
Vincent, Lt. Col. A. C. F.
Vizetelly, Frank
Volunteer forces, colonial and foreign: with Boers; with British; compared to regulars
Von Donop, Col. Pelham
Voortrekker republics
Vrede commando
Vryburg
Vryheid commando
Wade, Sgt. W. J.
Wagon Hill, battle of
Wakkerstroom commando
Walker, Benjamin
Wallace, Edgar
War correspondents, see News coverage and newspapers
War Office (Brit.); military preparation; and volunteers
Ward, Col. Edward
Warnock, Quartermaster Sgt.
Warren, Lt. Gen. Sir Charles; career; incompetence; at Tabanyama and Spion Kop; relieved of command
Warren, Lt. George
Waters, Col. Wallscourt
Waterson, Dr. Jane
Waterval Drift
Waterval North camp
Watson, Lt. W. W. R.
Watson, Capt.
Wauchope, Maj. Gen. Andrew
Wauchope, Lt. Arthur
Webb, Beatrice
Webster, A. T.
Weil, Benjamin
Welch regiment
Welsh hospital
Wepener
Wessels, Gen. C. J.
Wessles, Gen. J. B.
Wessels, J. H. J.
Wessels, Marthinus
Westminster, Duke of
Weston, Maj.
West Yorkshire Regiment
White, C. K.
White, Lt. Gen Sir George; battle of Ladysmith; career; to Natal; in Ladysmith; siege of Ladysmith
White, Capt. Wyndham
White flag
Whittington, Dr. Richard
Widows and Orphans Fund
Wilkinson, Spencer
Willcock, Capt. Stephen
Williams, Basil
Willis, George W.
Wilson, Capt. Gordon
Wilson, Lady Sarah née Churchill
Wilson, H. W.
Wilson, Henry
Wilson, Lt. Robert
Wilson, Sir William
Witwatersrand, see Rand
Wolfaardt, Piet
Wolmarans, A. D. W.
Wolmarans, Maj. J. F.
Wolseley, Gen. Sir Garnet; compared to Buller; and Roberts
Women and children (see also Concentration camps), Boer: with forces; and farms destroyed; in Pretoria; on veld; British: nurses; teachers; visitors
Wood, Gen. Evelyn
Woodgate, Maj. Gen. E. R. P.
Woodroffe, Dr. G. G.
Wools-Sampson, Aubrey
World Wars
Worsfold, W. Basil
Wright, Sir Almroth
Wright, Maj. Robert
Xenophon (Anabasis)
Yorkshire Regiment
Yorkshire Light Infantry
Younghusband, Sir George
Yule, Brig. Gen. James
Yule, Dr. Pratt
Zand River Convention
Zarps, see Johannesburg police
Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von
Zoutpansberg district
Zulus; war with British
a Daniel Lindley (1801-1888) was an American, son of the president of Philadelphia College, who came to South Africa in 1833, learned Dutch, and in 1843 was ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church.
b The Griquas are a people of mixed origins: Hottentot, European, and Bantu. They proudly called themselves Bastards until missionaries told them the word was pejorative.
c Not even missionaries and liberals in England suggested equal political rights. A schoolbook explained it: “To the natives . . . the British flag means protection and security. It does not mean complete equality before the law, still less does it mean political equality. In a land where the natives are so many more in number than the whites, and where the natives are not by nature either intelligent or law-abiding, they must be restrained in matters where white men are left free.”1
d British regulars began the war with old Lee-Metfords. Although a few years earlier the army had decided to adopt the improved Lee-Enfield, which differed from the older rif
le in the number, depth, and width of the grooves, it had been determined, with typical military economy, to allow the regulars to wear out the old rifles and, except for 25,000 issued to reservists, the Lee-Enfields (some 200,000) were put in the reserve of rifles. Three months after the war started, when the army began to issue the new Lee-Enfields to the Imperial Yeomanry, it was discovered by the yeomanry that all these new rifles were badly sighted, firing 18 inches to the right at 500 yards!
e Instead of the hiding he deserved, young Dunn became a hero. Invalided home, he was given a tumultuous welcome. At Portsmouth the crowd carried him on their shoulders. There was some execrable poetry written about him, and he was taken to Osborne to meet the Queen, who presented him with a new silver bugle with a suitable inscription. Queen Victoria, writing of him in her journal, described him as “a nice-looking, modest boy.” Richard Harding Davis, the American newspaper correspondent and novelist, declared that the only people who emerged from the war with any distinction were Sir George White, Baden-Powell, John French, Winston Churchill, and Bugler Dunn.
f Had he not been born into one of the classes of society from which British officers were drawn, Roberts could never have been a professional soldier, for the minimum height required by the regular army for other ranks was 5 feet 5½ inches, reduced during the war in South Africa to 5 feet 2 inches for the Royal Artillery and 5 feet 3 inches for other regiments of the line.
g Actually the 18th.
h These are the figures obtained by Captain S. L’H. Slocum, 8th United States Cavalry, who was the American military attaché with Roberts’s force, but a wide variety of other figures exist. Wild as the Boer numbers generally were, those of the British often showed wide discrepancies too. The Times History gave Roberts’s strength as “roughly 37,000 men,” of whom 30,000 were combatants; Rayne Kruger, a modern writer, and A. Conan Doyle gave about 33,000 (over 25,000 infantry and nearly 8,000 mounted troops); American historian A. T. Mahan gave the total as 35,000 (24,000 infantry and 11,000 cavalry and mounted infantry), which is also the figure used by Brian Gardner. The number of guns is also in dispute: Kruger said “over 100,” Mahan and Conan Doyle said 98, while Slocum gave 92.
i A bheestie is an Indian water carrier; a mussack is the goatskin bag he carries. A pokhole (usually spelled puckauly) is a large waterskin made from an entire ox hide and holding about 20 gallons.
j A remarkable young man who, as he spoke Afrikaans and English as well as several Bantu languages, served as an interpreter in Mafeking. He also knew how to type. After the war he became a Lutheran lay preacher, editor of an English-Setswana weekly newspaper, and in 1912 the first general corresponding secretary of the South African Native National Congress. His novel, Mhudi, written in English, was the first by a South African Bantu; he also made many translations from English into Setswana. His diary of the siege was not discovered until 1969.