Footnote 247: Cd. 547.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 248: Cd. 522.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 249: The italics are Mr. Kipling's. The Science of Rebellion: a Tract for the Times, by Rudyard Kipling.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 250: Cd. 663.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 251: Cd. 605.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 252: Cd. 988.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 253: "Cape Colony is a great disappointment to me ... no general rising can be expected in that quarter.... [But] the little contingent there has been of great help to us: they have kept 50,000 troops occupied, with which otherwise we should have had to reckon."—Gen. Christian de Wet at the Vereeniging Conference on May 16th, 1902. App. A. The Three Years' War, by Christian Rudolf de Wet (Constable, 1902). But see forward also, p. [485], for part played by British loyalists.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 254: Cd. 663.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 255: E.g. those employed by General Sherman in his march to the Sea, through Georgia, in the latter part of 1864.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 256: This estimate was very much too small: at the Vereeniging surrender, when many thousands more of Boers had been captured or killed 21,256 burghers and rebels laid down their arms. Cd. 988.[Back to Main Text]