Ian Hamilton's March

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IAN HAMILTON. From the Picture by John S. Sargent, R.A.
IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH
BY WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
WITH PORTRAIT, MAPS AND PLANS
TORONTO THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
All rights reserved
THIS COLLECTION OF LETTERS IS INSCRIBED TO LIEUT-GENERAL IAN HAMILTON, C.B., D.S.O. WITH WHOSE MILITARY ACHIEVEMENTS IT IS LARGELY CONCERNED
PREFACE.
This book is a continuation of those letters to the Morning Post newspaper on the South African war, which have been lately published under the title 'London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.' Although the letters had been read to some extent in their serial form, their reproduction in a book has been indulgently regarded by the public; and I am encouraged to repeat the experiment.
The principal event with which the second series deals is the march of Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton's column on the flank of Lord Roberts's main army from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. This force, which encountered and overcame the brunt of the Boer resistance, which, far from the railway, marched more than 400 miles through the most fertile parts of the enemy's country, which fought ten general actions and fourteen smaller affairs, and captured five towns, was, owing to the difficulties of telegraphing, scarcely attended by a single newspaper correspondent, and accompanied continuously by none. Little has therefore been heard of its fortunes, nor do I know of anyone who is likely to write an account.