Roberts, Lieut. Frederick, son of Field-Marshal: galloper on Clery’s staff, 214; killed at Colenso, 235, 237, 241, 245–6, 315, 349, 454, 458
Roberts, Lady (Nora), 242; flag made by, 373, 416, 433; in Bloemfontein and Pretoria, 448, 449
Roberts (‘Indian’) and Wolseley (‘African’) Rings in British Army, xv, xvi, 73–4, 76; and appointments and policy for war in South Africa, 96, 243, 250, 458; and conduct of war, 380, 423, 454; at War Office on Roberts’s return, 457
Robertson, Capt. (later Field-Marshal Sir William), Intelligence Officer, 317, 574
Robinson (later Dawson), Geoffrey, of Milner’s ‘Kindergarten’, 553
Robinson, J. B., Uitlander millionaire, 46, 56, 85, 116
Rochfort, Col, A. N., CO mobile column, 556, 557
Romer, Capt, of Dublin Fusiliers, 228
Roodewal (OFS), De Wet raids supplies stacked at (7 Jun. 1900), 435–6
Rooiwal (Roodeval, Transvaal), battle at (11 Apr. 1902), 557–60
Rosebery, Lord, Liberal statesman, 30, 33, 465, 468, 510
Rosmead Drift, Modder River, 193, 195
Ross, Capt. Charles, of Canadian Scouts, 538; Maj., 545
Ross, Maj. C, of Royal Lancasters, 295
Ross, Lt-Col W., CO mounted infantry, 475
Rothschild, Lord (Nathaniel), 89, 201
Rothschild family, 33
Rouliot, Georges, director of Wernher-Beit’s South African subsidiary, 46, 89
Roux, Boer general, 443, 444
Rowntree, Joshua, sent to inspect concentration camps, 505
Roy, Maj., of mounted infantry, 558
Royal Artillery Mounted Rifles, 545
Royal Canadians, 331, 339
Royal Commission on South African War, 71, 320
Royal Dragoons, 226
Royal Engineers, 272, 285, 287, 297, 303
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 224, 228, 357, 358, 452, 455
Royal Irish Fusiliers, 95, 125, 129, 130, 145
Royal Irish Rifles, 395, 441–2, 445
Royal Lancaster Regiment, 295, 299, 304, 362
Royal Navy, organizes transport of Buller’s Army Corps, 163; see also Naval Brigade
Royston, Col W., CO Colonial troops, Lady-smith, 273, 365
Rundle, Lt-Gen. Sir Leslie, CO 8th and Colonial Divisions, 439, 441, 442, 542, 543
Russell, Lord John, 17
Russia, rumours of move against India by, 388
Saki (H. H. Munro), quoted, 463
Salisbury, Marquis of, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary (1895-1908), Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal (1900-2): and Chamberlain, 26, 27, 29, 80, 83; and army budget, 73; and War Office estimate of time required to put force on Transvaal frontier, 82; on Milner, 83; Selborne and, 87; at Cabinet meeting authorizing despatch of troops, 92–4; would have accepted compromise with Kruger, 101; and reason for war, 112; and replacement of Buller by Roberts: insists on Kitchener as Roberts’s Chief of Staff, 244, 245; and management of war, 246; letter from Kruger and Steyn to, 388; and election, 463, 468
Salisbury, Lady, illness and death of, 92, 246, 403
Sand (Zand) River Convention (1852), 17, 39 Sandbach, Lt-Col A. E., Buller’s Intelligence Officer, 285, 297, 299, 347, 350, 359; on Buller, 368
Sandeman, Capt, of 17th Lancers, 524, 525
Sandspruit, near Volksrust: Boer concentration at (1899), 104
Sannah’s Post (Bloemfontein waterworks on Modder): De Wet plans to attack, 390; De Wet’s victory at, 392–4, 409, 448, 472
Sargeant, Lieut, of Thorneycroft’s mounted infantry, 295
Sauer, J. W., Cape politician, 521
Scheepers, Capt. Gideon, CO Boer Scout Corps, 447; on raid into Cape Colony, 526; executed, 561
Schoeman’s Drift, De Wet crosses Vaal at, 447, 450
Schofield, Capt H. N., ADC to Buller, 235
Schreiner, William: Attorney-General, Cape Colony, 21–2, 116; leader of Cape Afrikaners, 60; Cape Prime Minister, 62, 63; Milner argues with, about defence of Cape, 85–6, 116, 117, 162
Scobell, Col H., CO column in Cape Colony, 527–8
Scott, C. P., MP, and concentration camps, 505
Scott-Turner, Maj., commanding sortie of mounted troops from Kimberley, 186–7
Scots Fusiliers, 348, 362
Scots Greys, 328, 448, 472
Scots Guards, 195, 196
Scott, Capt, of Cape Police, at Vryburg, 184
Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), 299, 300, 304, 441
scouts, De Wet’s two special corps of, 447, 476
scurvy, in Kimberley, 325
Seaforth Highlanders, 202, 203, 205, 206, 337, 438, 442
Seele, Capt. Molyneux, staff officer to Col Ridley, prisoner with De Wet, 445–6
Selbome, Lord, Under-Secretary for Colonies (1895-1900), 32, 55, 89, 468; a Milnerite, 79, 87, 90, 101, 118; complains of lack of Cabinet committee to handle the war, 246
Sergeant Lieut, at Spion Kop, 295
Shangan mine boys from the Rand, in Mafeking, 402, 408
Sherston, Col J., Brigade-Major at Dundee, 132
Shropshire Regiment, 339
signal lamp, fails at Spion Kop, 305, 306
Sheridan, Lieut, of 17th Lancers, 524, 525
Sikobobo, Zulu chief, 567
Sim, Lt-Col G. H., CO Royal Engineers, Spion Kop, 303, 305, 367
Simonstown naval base, 576
Sims, of naval gunners, 272, 274–5
Slabbert’s Nek, Brandwater Basin, 439, 441–2, 443
Slachter’s Nek, hanging of Afrikaner rebels at (1815), 15, 40, 101
slaves, emancipation of, xxi, 16
Smartt, Dr, with Rhodes in Kimberley, 184
Smith, Sir Harry, Governor of Cape Colony (1847-52), 16, 17
Smith, Pte, of Black Watch, 201
Smith-Dorrien, Maj.-Gen. H. A. (later General Sir Horace), CO 19th Brigade, 313, 331, 334, 337, 338; CO mobile column, 447, 450; criticizes Kitchener, 498
Smuts, Jan: State Attorney, Transvaal, 42–4; on Jameson Raid, 9; his interview with British Agent in Pretoria, 44–5, 50; his ‘Great Deal’ offer to mining houses and Uitlanders, 53, 54, 55; at Bloemfontein meeting with Milner, 61, 62, 63, 69–70; at prospect of war, 100, 101; Milner in mutual distrust of Chamberlain and, 102; his plan for offensive into Natal delayed by Steyn, 102–3; at surrender of Johannesburg, 430, 431, 432; on battle of Diamond Hill, 434; at Cypherfontein council, 470–4; as Assistant Commandant-General, regroups commandos, 476; at Nooitgedacht, 478, 479, 480; speaks on Dingaan’s Day, 481; foresees British loss of patience with Kitchener, 482; and Boer peace feelers, 488; his raid into Cape Colony, 519–25, 532–3; at peace negotiations, as delegate for Transvaal, 551, 561, 562, 563, 565, 567–8; as imperial statesman, 576
Snyman, General J. P., besieging Mafeking, 379, 400, 409, 410; and Eloff, 411
Solomon, Sir Richard, Attorney-General, Cape Colony, adviser to Milner at Pretoria, 563
South Africa, Union of: Milner’s vision of, 118–19; negotiated (1909), with colour bar included, 577
South African Association (in England), 87
South African Constabulary, raised in Britain, 496, 559
South African League, 50, 52, 55 South African Light Horse, of Uitlander refugees, 108, 165, 347
South African Women and Children Distress Fund, 503, 508
South Lancashire Regiment, 362
spade, secret weapon of Boer commandos, 193, 200
Spender, J. A., editor of Westminster Gazette, 88
Spion Kop, 282, 283; Warren’s decision to attack, 284; taken by night march, 285; battle at (24-5 Jan. 1900), 288–307; battle as seen and heard from Ladysmith, 351–2
Spragge, Lt-Col B., CO Imperial Yeomanry at Lindley, 436–7
Spurling, Trooper, of Bechuanaland Protectorate Regiment, on Baden-Powell, 397
Spytfontein Ridge, 180, 181, 186, 189, 192, 199, 200
Standerton, Transvaal: Buller captures railway engines at, 454; Boer council at (June 1901), decides to invade Cape and Nata
l, 520, 529
Standerton Commando, 221, 222
Stead, W. T., editor of Pall Mall Gazette, 87–8
steam traction engine, pulls ox wagons out of river, 279
Steavenson, Capt. C. J., Adjutant of Liverpools, in Ladysmith, 265, 267, 351, 353
Steenkamp, General, starts Afrikaner rising at Prieska, 379, 388
Steevens, George, Daily Mail correspondent, 136, 153, 265, 266
Steinberg, Pte, of 60th Rifles, 351
Stellenbosch, main base camp at, 179; Director of Remounts at, 381
Stephenson, Brig.-Gen. T. E., CO 18th Brigade, 334, 338
Stewart, Col ‘Bimbash’, 541
Stewart, Lt-Col H. K., of mounted infantry, 530
Steyn, Commandant, at Paardeberg, 339
Steyn, Marthinus, President of Orange Free State, 40–1, 60, 65, 69; as obstacle to Smuts’s plan of offensive into Natal, 102–3; to front after Modder River battle, 199; after Colenso favours offensive, 257; leaves Bloemfontein, 372; at Kroonstad council, 386; letter to Salisbury from Kruger and, challenging Britain to state intentions, 388; ‘we shall never surrender’, 412, 443; crosses Vaal with De Wet, 447; at Cypherfontein council; takes over role of Kruger, 471–4; narrowly escapes at Bothaville, 474–5; as obstacle to peace moves, 513, 537; in north-east corner of Orange River Colony; escapes to join De la Rey, 549; at peace negotiations, 551
Stopford, Col F., Military Secretary to Buller, 210, 213, 230, 368
Stormberg: railway junction at, 117; battle of (10 Dec 1899), 214–15, 248
Stormberg Mountains, escape of Smuts’s commando from, 522
Strachey, St Loe, editor of Spectator, 244
stretcher-bearers, 224–5, 237, 343
Surprise Hill, Ladysmith, raid on Boer howitzer on (11 Dec. 1899), 271
Swaziland: question of Boer control of, 67; fate of Boer commando in, 498
Swaziland Commando, 222
Sydney Bulletin, quoted, 240
Symons, Maj.-Gen. Sir W. Perm, appointed GOC Natal, 76, 82, 93, 95; moves brigade north of Ladysmith, 98, 107; allowed by White to remain, 108, 113, 122; 2, 000 men under, at Ladysmith and Dundee, 105, 108–9; at Talana, 126, 128, 129; fatally wounded, 130, 147, 157
Tabanyama ridge (Rangeworthy), near Spion Kop, 283, 284, 289, 291, 292, 296, 297, 300
Talana Hill, near Dundee, action at (20 Oct. 1899), 123–32, 169, 248
Taylor, Maj., of U Battery, RHA, at Korn Spruit, 393
telegraph wires: Jameson’s party and, 3, 4; Boers cut, 117; British military, tapped by Boers, 471
telephones: in Ladysmith, 273, 275; in Mafeking, 412
Thackeray, Lt-Col T. M. G., CO Inniskillings, 228,233
Theron, Capt. Danie, CO Boer Scout Corps, 432, 447; in raid into Cape Colony, 526
Thesiger, George, of Rifle Brigade, 274
Thompson, Lieut. S. A. (later Lt-Col), CO firing squad at execution of Australian officers, 539
Thorneycroft, Lt-Col A., special service officer: CO mounted infantry, 285, 286; at Spion Kop, 295, 298–9, 302, 303, 304–5
Tongaland, British forestall Boers in, 39-40 trains, armoured, 134, 213, 343; carrying Winston Churchill, 167, 171–2, 278; at Modder River, 197; Roberts’s, 319; at Mafeking, 405; Kitchener’s, 546, 556
transport: Roberts and Kitchener reorganize, 312, 318–19, 335; failure of, during advance on Bloemfontein, 373, 374, 3 8o-i;old system partly restored, 422
Transvaal (South African Republic): founded as voortrekker republic, 16; independence guaranteed by Britain (1852), 17; annexed by Britain (1877), then restored as republic, xxi, 18–19, 70, 93; explosion in wealth of, from gold, 20–1; united behind Kruger by Jameson Raid, 40; makes pact with Orange Free State, 40–1; arming of, after Jameson Raid, 31, 41–2, 50, 69; police in, 44–5; mobilizes, and issues ultimatum, 103; independence of, as Kruger’s aim, 25$; British aim to annex, 388; Roberts proclaims annexation of, 458; annexation not negotiable (Kitchener), 489; anxious for peace, 573; census (1904) shows equal numbers of Boers and Britons, 375; promoted from Crown Colony to self-government (1906), 575
Trench, Lieut Max C, of 69th Battery, RFA, 100, 143
trenches: De la Rey’s, in banks of Modder and Riet Rivers, 193, and under Magersfontein ridge, 200, 206; Botha’s, at Colenso, 217, 219, 220, 226, 232; Cronje’s, at Paardeberg, 334, 335; Baden-Powell’s, at Mafcking, 402; dug by Boers at successive rivers, but outflanked, 420–1
Treves, Dr (Queen’s surgeon): in charge of hospital train, 209; in charge of Field Hospital, 224–5; at Colenso, 237, 238
Trichardt, Commandant, 360
Trichardt’s Drift, across Tugela, 281, 282, 283, 306
Trotter, Capt. Algy, ADC to Buller, 156, 207, 229,230
Trotter, Capt. Gerald, of Grenadier Guards, 188
Tucker, Maj.-Gen. C, CO 7th Infantry Division, 313, 427
Tugela River: Buller advises no movement to north of, 97, 98, 107, 113, 149, 151, 212; Joubert crosses, 171; Botha fortifies line of, 174–5; Buller considers trying to cross, at Potgieter’s Drift, 208, 211–12, 214; changes to Colenso, 215; fords across, 216; Botha has fords concealed by removing stones, 220, 222; British cross, 281
Tweebosch, De la Rey captures Methuen at (7 Mar. 1902), 549, 556
Tweefontein (Groenkop), De Wet’s success at (25 Dec. 1901), 542–4
typhoid fever: at Ladysmith, 149, 262, 266, 353; in Bloemfontein, 381–3; casualties caused by, 382, 422; in concentration camps, 516, 518
Uitlander Council, pays fares of poorest refugees from the Rand, 116
Uitlanders, in Orange Free State, 40
Uitlanders, in Transvaal, xxii, 21, 28, 30, 31, 35, 42; Kruger and, 43; police and, 44, 45; British and, 45; question of franchise for, xxii, 49–50, 54. 56. 57, 58, 60, 61–2, 63, 64, 80; petitions to Queen Victoria from, 52, 53, 56, 58; Kruger’s offers to, on franchise, 54, 66–7, 68, 78, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 92, 100; Cabinet agrees to intervene on side of, 60, 63–4; pro-British, as refugees from Transvaal, 99, 115–16; image of, in Britain, 112; relief fund for, 116; pro-Boer, as cornerstone of Kruger’s state, 258, 259; administer British Johannesburg, 429–30; return from Cape and Natal, 554; share Milner’s forebodings about peace, 570
uniforms: of British army, changed to khaki, 78; of officers, 179, 312; British, worn by Boers, 519, 524; order that Boers wearing British, were to be shot, 525, 560
Vaal Krantz, 282, 283; Buller’s reverse at (5-7 Feb. 1900), 307, 314, 320, 344
Vaal River, Hamilton crosses, 424
Van Coller, Commandant, 542
Van der Venter, Commandant, 523
Van Leggelo, Transvaal State Prosecutor, 140
Ventersburg, burning of, 504–5
Vereeniging, 61; Boer delegates at, choose negotiating team, 562, report on situation in their districts, 565–6, and vote to accept peace terms, 569
Vertue, Capt. N. H., Woodgate’s Brigade-Major, 293
Verwoerd, Dr, takes South Africa out of Commonwealth (1961), 576
Victoria, Queen, 30, 33, 464; and replacement of Buller by Roberts, 245; to Baden-Powell, 398; Roberts writes to, 447, 448; disapproves of Lady Roberts’s presence in South Africa, 448; and Kitchener’s ambition to become C-in-C, India, 492
Viljoen, Commandant Ben, of Johannesburg Commando, 101, 134, 140, 425, 430, 493
Villebois-Mareuil, Col Georges Comte de, serving with Boers, promoted to General, 389
Villiers, Col, CO South African Light Horse, 165
Vivian, Captain Lord, of 17th Lancers, 524, 525
Vlakfontein, guerrilla attack on (29 May 1901), 513–14
Von Donop, Lt-Col S. B., De la Rey swoops on wagon convoy of, 549
voortrekkers, xxi, 16
Vorster, B. J., 577
vrouw (Boer housewife), as cornerstone of Kruger’s state, 259–60, 481
Vryburg: Cape Police garrison surrender at, 184; Mahon’s relief column at, 412–13
Vryheid Commando, 222, 288
Wade, Lieut, of Royal Lancasters, 295
Wagon Hill, ridge with Caesar’s Camp (Plat-rand), near Ladysmith, 270; Boer plan to storm, 260, 271; White relocates guns on, 272; Boer attack on, is repulsed (6 Jan. 1900), 272–8, 290; Hamilton’s failure to fortify, 369
wagon trains: De Wet’s decision to do without, 387; burghers refuse to abandon, 446; Roberts’s, on march to Rand, 420; Hunter’s, 439, 441, 444; Boer speed in loading and moving off with, 446
Wakkerstroom Commando, 106, 172, 221, 222
Walrond, Ozzy, private secretary to Milner, 11, 59, 117, 122
War Office, 71–2, 73; and despatch of troops to South Africa, 82, 95, no; Intelligence Department of, prepares secret handbook, Military Notes on the Dutch Republics, 77, 96, 143, (captured by Boers at Dundee) 147, 388, and Secret Journal of the war, xiv; and problems of expanding army, 246, and of supplying army, 251; established system of transport and supply maintained by, disrupted by Roberts and Kitchener, 318–19
Warren, Lt-Gen. Sir Charles, CO 5th Infantry Division, 238, 279; given independent command at Tugela crossing, 282–3, 283–4, 291, 293; during battle of Spion Kop, 291, 293, 295–6, 298, 299; snatches defeat from victory, 302, 303, 306; Churchill and, 304, 305; Buller on, 307; and Buller’s new tactics, 346, 347; on relief of Ladysmith, 367, 368
Waterval Drift, Riet River: Boers stampede Roberts’s draught oxen at, 319–20, and capture stores (15 Feb. 1900), 332, 375, 381, 387, 450
Watney, Lieut., of Middlesex Yeomanry, 544
Wauchope, Lieut. A. G., ADC to Gen. Wauchope, 204
Wauchope, Maj.-Gen. A., CO Highland Brigade, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206
Webb, Beatrice, 504
Weil, contractors and profiteers, in Mafeking, 495
Weldon, Maj., Wolseley’s ADC, at Hart’s Hill, 363
Welch Regiment, 334, 336
Wepener, Brabant’s Horse besieged at (Apr. 1900), 395, 448
Wernher, Julius, diamond and gold magnate, 35. 55. 74. 88; and ‘Great Deal’, 55, 56; supports Milner, 89, 119; and Uitlanders, 112, 116; in secret alliance with Milner, to reduce cost of African labour on Rand, 258–9; Kitchener on Boer fears of influence of, 490; knighted, 575; estate of, 577
Wernher-Beit (Wernher, Beit & Co.), 23, 3 5, 46, 48, 49; in alliance with Milner, xv-xvi, 88–9; and Kruger’s ‘Great Deal’, 57; finance Uitlan-der army, 108, and Imperial Yeomanry, 252; house belonging to, at Johannesburg, selected as residence by Milner, 501; guarantee war contribution (£30 million), 575; and South African governments, 577
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