LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS—Vol. III.
| [Bird’s-eye View of the Ground Covered by General Buller’s Operations] | At Front |
| 1. COLOURED PLATES |
| | PAGE |
| [Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, V.C. &c.] | Frontispiece |
| [Sergeant-Major—Imperial Light Horse] | 24 |
| [Army Service Corps] | 40 |
| [Household Cavalry—Captain, 2nd Life Guards] | 80 |
| [Royal Field Artillery (Action Front)] | 100 |
| [Cyclists—Lancashire Fusiliers] | 120 |
| [Private, Drummers, Piper, and Bugler—The Black Watch] | 134 |
| [Officers—City of London Imperial Volunteers] | 176 |
| 2. FULL-PAGE PLATES |
| | PAGE |
| [A Picket of 13th Hussars Surprised near the Tugela River] | 8 |
| [A Reconnaissance in Force with General French’s Cavalry near Colesberg] | 56 |
| [Colonel Pilcher’s Attack on Sunnyside Kopje] | 64 |
| [H.M.S. “Powerful”] | 84 |
| [The Great Assault on Ladysmith] | 88 |
| [Pietermaritzburg from the East] | 92 |
| [The Crossing of Potgieter’s Drift, January 16] | 96 |
| [Taking the 4.7 Naval Gun across the Tugela] | 104 |
| [Going out to the Attack on Spion Kop] | 112 |
| [The Scene on Spion Kop] | 116 |
| [Falls on the Tugela River] | 124 |
| [Arrival at Cape Town of Wounded from Natal] | 132 |
| [Lady Minto Presenting Colours To Herchmer’s Horse] | 144 |
| [The City Imperial Volunteers Crossing Westminster Bridge] | 168 |
| [New Zealanders Saving a Picket of the Yorkshire Regiment near Slingersfontein] | 184 |
| [“Fighting Mac” and the Highland Brigade in Action at Koodoesberg] | 188 |
| 3. FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS |
| | PAGE |
| [Lieut.-General Forestier Walker, K.C.B.] | 16 |
| [Major-General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum] | 32 |
| [Major-General Sir W. F. Gatacre, K.C.B.] | 48 |
| [Major-General Hector A. Macdonald, C.B.] | 72 |
| [Lieut.-General Sir Charles Warren, G.C.M.G.] | 128 |
| [Colonel W. D. Otter] | 136 |
| [Hon. W. P. Schreiner, C.M.G.] | 152 |
| [General Brabant, C.M.G.] | 160 |
| 4. MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT |
| | PAGE |
| [Map—The Seat of War] | 9 |
| [Sketch of Positions at Mafeking] | 20 |
| [Outpost and Intrenchment at Mafeking] | 24 |
| [Facsimile of Handwriting of Col. Baden Powell] | 32 |
| [Plan of Kimberley] | 40 |
| [Splinter Proof Shelter at Kimberley] | 43 |
| [Map of Movements of Gatacre and French] | 51 |
| [Map of Colonel Pilcher’s Raid] | 62 |
| [Lord Dundonald’s Galloping Gun Carriage] | 70 |
| [Maxim Automatic Gun or Pom-Pom] | 75 |
| [Map of Ladysmith] | 87 |
| [Mountain Battery] | 97 |
| [Sketch, &c., of Spion Kop] | 107 |
| [Plan of Engagement of Spion Kop] | 111 |
| [Plan of Engagement of Vaal Krantz] | 120 |
| [British 7-Pounder Field Gun] | 126 |
| [Siege of Ladysmith] | 128 |
| [Naval 12-Pounder Field Gun] | 132 |
| [Mr. Kruger’s Autograph] | 134 |
| [South African Scout] | 163 |
| [12½-Pounder Field Gun (C.I.V.)] | 172 |
| [Map of Position at Colesberg] | 179 |
| [Sketch of Position at Colesberg] | 181 |
| [Map illustrating Movement To Koodoesberg] | 187 |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE—Vol. III.
DECEMBER 1899.
17.—Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, K.P., G.C.B., V.C., &c., appointed Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, with Lord Kitchener of Khartoum as his Chief of the Staff.
War Office issued orders under which the remaining portion of the Army A Reserve were called up; and large reinforcements were to proceed to South Africa without delay.
General Gatacre advanced from Sterkstroom to Putters Kraal.
General French established his headquarters at Arundel.
Offers of Second Contingents by the Colonies accepted.