A HANDBOOK OF THE BOER WAR With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans GALE AND POLDEN LIMITED LONDON AND ALDERSHOT 1910 BUTLER & TANNER THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS FROME AND LONDON CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I PROLEGOMENA 1 I The Roundheads of South Africa 1 II Patriotism, Duty and Discipline 19 III War considered as a Branch of Sport 26 II THE NATAL WEDGE 36 III DEUS EX MACHINA NO. I 51 IV KIMBERLEY AND THE SIEGE OF RHODES 82 V A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS 96 VI MORE TUGELA TROUBLES 116 VII LADYSMITH AT BAY 138 VIII DEUS EX MACHINA NO. 2 156 IX ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS 193 X BADEN-POWELL AND THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING 212 XI BLOEMFONTEIN TO PRETORIA 229 XII THE NEW COLONY 247 XIII NEC CELER NEC AUDAX 262 XIV THE TAMING OF THE TRANSVAAL 273 XV THE RECURRENCES OF DE WET 294 XVI LORD KITCHENER AT WORK 311 XVII THE MECHANICAL PHASE 345 I Orange River Colony 345 II Eastern Transvaal 354 III Western Transvaal 357 IV Cape Colony 363 XVIII THE END 365 COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS AND BRIGADES 368 INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES 369 SKETCH MAPS AND PLANS[1] PAGE Northern Natal 50 Modder River and Magersfontein 59 Stormberg 65 Colenso 70 Spion Kop and Vaalkrantz 98 Spion Kop 104 Final Advance on Ladysmith 128 Siege of Ladysmith 139 Riet and Modder Drifts 161 Paardeberg 172 Poplar Grove and Driefontein 185 Sannah's Post 199 Magaliesberg District 240 Diamond Hill 243 Brandwater Basin 257 Orange Free State 260 Southern Transvaal 292 Noitgedacht Nek 319 General Map of South Africa--at the beginning. [Footnote 1: The thanks of the Author are due to the Army Council for permission to copy the maps and plans in the Official History of the War, and to L.S. Amery, Esq., for permission to copy the plans in the fifth volume of the _Times_ History of the War.] PREFATORY NOTE