Footnote 86: See maps Nos. [3], [5], and the [panoramic sketch].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 87: For composition of this force see [Appendix 3].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 88: Composition: 5th Lancers, detachment of 19th Hussars, Natal Mounted Rifles, three batteries Royal Field artillery, 1st Liverpool, 1st Devonshire, 2nd Gordon Highlanders.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 89: See [Appendix 4].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 90: See map No. [5].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 91: A sketch of the position, as seen from the side of the British advance from Dundee, will be found in the case of maps accompanying this volume.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 92: There were for each gun 154 rounds, including 60 reserve.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 93: The omission of the Boers to man this breastwork, situated as it was within 400 yards of the edge of the wood, and commanding every inch of the ground in front, was not owing to any fears on the part of Lukas Meyer as to its not being tenable. The orders of that general had been plainly that the wall was to be held, but as he did not remain to see them carried out, the burghers, fearing to hold what appeared to them isolated and inadequate cover, neglected it entirely.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 94: For detailed casualties, see [Appendix 6].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 95: See maps Nos. [3], [5] and [7].[Back to Main Text]