IN SIX VOLUMES

VOL. III.—FROM THE BATTLE OF COLENSO, 15TH DEC. 1899, TO LORD ROBERTS’S ADVANCE INTO THE FREE STATE, 12TH FEB. 1900

EDINBURGH: T. C. & E. C. JACK

MANCHESTER: KENNETH MACLENNAN, 75 PICCADILLY

1900

CONTENTS—Vol. III.

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[CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE]vii
[CHAPTER I]
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[The Situation]1
[Doings at Chieveley]8
[Christmas at the Cape and Natal]14
[CHAPTER II]
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[Mafeking]19
[Kuruman and Elsewhere]25
[Mafeking, November]31
[Kimberley]39
[CHAPTER III]
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[Life with General Gatacre]47
[With General French]52
[CHAPTER IV]
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[The Colonials at Belmont]60
[Colonel Pilcher’s Raid]61
[Activities and Surprises]68
[At Modder River]72
[CHAPTER V]
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[Christmas at Ladysmith]79
[The Attack on Wagon Hill]81
[CHAPTER VI]
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[Buller’s Second Advance]92
[The Flank Movement]97
[The Battle of Spion Kop]104
[The Third Great Effort—Vaal Krantz]117
[Disappointment at Ladysmith]125
[Lord Roberts at the Cape]131
[CHAPTER VII]
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[The Wonder of the World]136
[First Canadian Contingent]138
[The Second Canadian Contingent]144
[Strathcona’s Horse]146
[New South Wales]148
[Victoria]150
[New Zealand]151
[Queensland]153
[South Australia]154
[West Australia]157
[Tasmania]157
[The Bushmen’s Corps]158
[India’s Contingents]159
[The South African Volunteers—]
[Cape Colony]161
[Natal]166
[The Imperial Yeomanry]167
[The City Imperial Volunteers]171
[CHAPTER VIII]
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[At Colesberg]174
[Lord Roberts’s Advance]183
[“Fighting Mac” at Koodoesberg]186
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[APPENDIX]190
[The Story of Spion Kop]190
[List of Staff]199