CONTENTS——Vol. IV.

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE[vii]
CHAPTER I
The Vote of Censure[1]
Kimberley[14]
General French’s Ride, February 12 to 15[30]
Strategy versus Tactics[37]
The Herding of Cronje, February 16 to 18[49]
The Battle of Paardeberg, February 18[54]
Trapped[62]
The Surrender of Cronje[71]
CHAPTER II
Mafeking, December and January[80]
CHAPTER III
At Poplar Grove[95]
The Fight at Driefontein, March 10[101]
At Bloemfontein, March 13[108]
CHAPTER IV
Mafeking, February[112]
CHAPTER V
At Chieveley Again[121]
Ladysmith, February 1 to 26[129]
The Battle of Pieters, February 20 to 27[134]
Expectation[151]
The Relief of Ladysmith, February 28[153]
The Formal Entry, March 3[156]
CHAPTER VI
Changes in Cape Colony, February and March[163]
At Bethulie, March 12[171]
CHAPTER VII
Bloemfontein Under British Rule[174]
The Battle of Karree[192]
CHAPTER VIII
Mafeking in March[194]
Colonel Plumer’s Operations[204]
LIST OF STAFF[213]
APPENDIX[215]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS——Vol. IV.

Map illustrating the Movements for the Relief ofKimberley and the Capture of Bloemfontein[At Front]
1. COLOURED PLATES
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The Queen Listening to a Dispatch from the Front[Frontispiece]
The Imperial Yeomanry[12]
The Royal Lancasters[16]
West Yorkshire and Yorkshire Regiments[88]
The Inniskilling Dragoons[104]
South African Light Horse, Brabant’s Horse, andDuke of Edinburgh’s Volunteer Rifles[120]
Strathcona’s Horse[184]
The Cape Town Highlanders[200]
2. FULL-PAGE PLATES
The Dash for Kimberley—The 10th Hussars CrossingKlip Drift[32]
The Last Stand made by the Boers before Kimberley[36]
Capture of a Boer Convoy by General French’s Troops[40]
The Battle of Paardeberg[56]
Cronje’s Stronghold[64]
Cronje Surrenders to Lord Roberts[72]
Cronje’s Force on their March South[80]
Shell from the Naval Brigade Dispersing Boers[96]
The Formal Surrender of Bloemfontein[108]
Sleepless Mafeking[112]
The Relief of Ladysmith—The Last Rush at Hlangwane Hill[128]
In Beleaguered Ladysmith—Watching for Buller fromObservation Hill[152]
Hindoo Refugees from the Transvaal in Camp at Cape Town[168]
Conveying Wounded to Wynberg Hospital Camp[172]
The British Occupation of Bloemfontein—An Evening Concertin Market Square by the Pipers of the Highland Brigade[176]
Colonel Plumer’s Gallant Attempt to Relieve Mafekingfrom the North[208]
3. FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS
The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G.[8]
Lieut.-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, C.B.[24]
General Cronje[48]
Major-General A. Fitzroy Hart, C.B.[136]
Major-General H. J. T. Hildyard, C.B.[144]
Brigadier-General the Earl of Dundonald, C.B.[156]
Lieut.-General Hon. N. G. Lyttelton, C.B.[160]
Mr. M. T. Steyn, Late President Orange Free State[192]
4. MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT
Shell Picked up in Kimberley Streets[15]
“Long Cecil” made at De Beers Mines[21]
Placard Erected by Mr. Rhodes[27]
Typical Underground Dwelling at Kimberley[36]
10th Hussars with Nordenfeldt Gun[46]
Plan of Paardeberg[57]
Guns Captured at Paardeberg[68]
Boer Trenches at Paardeberg[78]
Market Square, Mafeking[85]
Gun Made in Mafeking[87]
Directing an Army from a Military Balloon[102]
Facsimile of “The Mafeking Mail”[114]
Scene of Fighting at Monte Cristo[125]
Balloon Map—Battle of Pieters and Relief of Ladysmith[135]
Signal Apparatus of H.M.S. “Forte”[146]
King’s Post, Ladysmith[151]
Map of Operations on Orange River[165]
Signal Station at Bloemfontein[182]
Native Church, Mafeking[199]
Map showing Advance to Mafeking[205]
Lobatsi Railway Station[212]

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE——Vol. IV.

FEBRUARY 1900.

12-13.—General French, following up Hannay’s movement, crossed Riet River, and next day with a strong force marched twenty-five miles into the Free State, seized Klip Drift on the Modder River, occupied the hills to the north, and captured three of the enemy’s laagers, with supplies.