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CONTENTS—Vol. VI

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE[v]
OFFICIAL TABLE OF CASUALTIES IN SOUTH AFRICA[viii]
CHAPTER I
At Pretoria, June 5 to 10[1]
The Battle of Diamond Hill, June 11 to 12[12]
Guarding the Communications[19]
CHAPTER II
General Buller’s Operations—Routing the Boers from Laing’s Nek, May 19 to June 12[27]
The Advance from Laing’s Nek to Standerton—Joining Hands with Lord Roberts’s Force, June 13 to 22[32]
CHAPTER III
In Orange River Colony (East), June[37]
In the Western Transvaal, June to July 9[40]
CHAPTER IV
The Battle of Bethlehem—The Surrender of Prinsloo[43]
Affairs in and Around Pretoria—The Capture of Middelburg[54]
Protecting the Krugersdorp-Potchefstroom Railroad[66]
CHAPTER V
Chasing De Wet in the Western Transvaal[70]
Plots and Proclamations, August[81]
CHAPTER VI
General Buller’s Movements—Clearing the Transvaal between Volksrust and Belfast[88]
CHAPTER VII
The Lydenburg Campaign[93]
The Orange River Colony[112]
The Western Transvaal[117]
Exit Mr. Kruger[120]
CHAPTER VIII
Guerilla Warfare[125]
Afterword[137]
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF NOTABLE PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN[152]
RECIPIENTS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS[191]
LEXICON OF TERMS AND PLACES CONNECTED WITH THE CAMPAIGN[197]
DEATHS IN ACTION AND FROM DISEASE[208]
LIST OF CASUALTIES[211]
INDEX[213]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS—Vol. VI.

Map Illustrating General Buller’s Campaign in Natal, May-June 1900[At Front]
1. COLOURED PLATES
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Muster of the Cape Town Guard[Frontispiece]
The Grenadier Guards[8]
The Highland Light Infantry[56]
The Victoria Mounted Rifles[72]
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers[120]
The 2nd Northampton Regiment[140]
Market Square, Johannesburg[148]
Commander and Able-Seaman, R.N.[192]
2. FULL-PAGE PLATES
Australian Bushmen on the March[24]
A Historic Battlefield: Majuba[32]
Prinsloo’s Commando Retreating to the Brandwater Basin[44]
Prinsloo’s Last Stand in the Valley of the Little Caledon[48]
The Surrender of Prinsloo’s Force[52]
Algoa Bay and Port Elizabeth[64]
Boers Taking the Oath of Neutrality[88]
Prisoners’ Camp at Nooitgedacht[96]
The Night Charge of the 19th Hussars near Lydenburg[104]
The Débâcle: on the Track of a Fleeing Commando[112]
Simon’s Town, Cape Colony[124]
Burning the Farm of a Treacherous Burgher[128]
The Harbour, East London[132]
The Inspection of Colonial Soldiers at Windsor[136]
Return of the City Imperial Volunteers[144]
Durban, Natal[200]
3. FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS
The Earl of Airlie[16]
Major-General Clements, D.S.O.[40]
De Wet[80]
Major-General Barton[152]
H.R.H. Prince Christian[160]
Sir Francis Clery, K.C.B.[168]
Major-General Smith-Dorrien, D.S.O.[176]
Lieut.-General Tucker, C.B.[184]
4. MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT
Map of Seat of War[5]
Plans—Battle of Diamond Hill[14, 16]
Lines Torn up by De Wet[22]
Battle of Almond’s Nek (Majuba)[28]
Repairing Laing’s Nek Tunnel[31]
Railway Map—E. and S.E. of Pretoria[33]
" " W. and S.W. of Pretoria[41]
" " E. Orange River Colony and Natal[45]
Position of Troops round the Brandwater Basin before the Surrender of Prinsloo[50]
Nitral’s Nek[58]
Map Illustrating the Eastward Move from Eerstefabrieken to Middelburg[64]
Map—The Battlefields of Pretoria[73]
Commando’s Nek, Magaliesberg[79]
A Capital on Wheels[94]
Map—Lydenburg Campaign[104]
Barberton[107]
Harrismith[113]
Major-General Brabazon[155]
Brigadier-General Broadwood[155]
Lieut.-Colonel Dalgety[161]
Hon. Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson[169]
Major-General Hutton, C.B.[171]
Colonel Kekewich[172]
Lieutenant Roberts, V.C.[182]
Lieutenant-Colonel Thorneycroft[186]
Captain Towse, V.C.[186]
Surg.-General W. D. Wilson[189]

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE—Vol. VI.

JUNE 1900.