Footnote 54: See Vol. II.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 55: These places had been suggested as suitable for advanced depôts in "Notes on the Lines of Communication in Cape Colony," issued by the Intelligence Division, W.O., in June, 1899.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 56: W.O. letter, September 3rd, 1897.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 57: W.O. letter, February 23rd, 1899.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 58: This statement is based on information obtained from Boer sources during and since the war, but the numbers must only be taken as approximately accurate.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 59: Reinforcements, amounting in all to about 3,240 men, joined the Boer Natal army during the months November-December; these were made up of 1,300 Johannesburg police and burghers, 290 Swaziland police and burghers and the Lydenburg and Carolina commandos. These reinforcements were, however, counterbalanced by the transfer of detachments of the Free State commandos to the western theatre of war.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 60: The corps mobilised were Prince Alfred's Own Cape Field artillery, the Cape Garrison Artillery, the Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles, Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard, the Duke of Edinburgh's Volunteer Rifles, and the Cape Town Highlanders. The Kimberley and Mafeking corps had been called out before the commencement of the war. Subsequently the Uitenhage Rifles and the Komgha Mounted Rifles were called out on the 10th of November, the Cape Medical Staff Corps was mobilised on the 16th of November, and the Frontier Mounted Rifles on the 24th of November, 1899.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 61: See general map of South Africa, Relief map, No. [2], and map, No. [3].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 62: "Piled up and rugged."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 63: "Mountains of the Dragons."[Back to Main Text]