Footnote 126: For gallantry on this occasion Second-Lieut. J. Norwood, 5th Dragoon Guards, was awarded the Victoria Cross.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 127: This is shown on map [8] as the first artillery position.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 128: It was found to be impossible to get the wheeled gun of the 1st King's Royal Rifles over the boulders of the kopje.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 129: See [p. 176].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 130: Following Talana, see [p. 140].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 131: This is the position shown on map [8 (a)].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 132: Rear-Admiral Sir R. Harris, K.C.M.G., in Naval command at the Cape, had been requested (October 24th) by Sir G. White to send a heavy gun detachment to Ladysmith "in view of heavy guns being brought by General Joubert from the north." It will be seen with what promptitude the request was acceded to and acted upon by the Naval commander. In ninety-six hours the guns were disembarked from H.M.S. Powerful at Durban; seventeen hours later they were in action.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 133: The simile of an officer present.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 134: Or South African Republic Police (the "Zarps").[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 135: For detailed casualties, etc., see [Appendix 6].[Back to Main Text]