General De la Rey and staff at Pretoria; his nephew, twelve years old, is serving on the staff 232 Field cornets in Pretoria receiving orders from a general 233 Boer women bidding good-by to their men off for the front 235 Russian hospital corps with the Boers: the wounded man is Colonel Blake, formerly U. S. A. 235 Boers under heavy shell fire, awaiting British advance behind their defenses 243 Burghers’ horses during the battle of Pretoria 243 The Boer retreat from Pretoria 246 One of the Guards at Pretoria 247 General De la Rey and a group of his burghers while awaiting a British attack 249 Lord Roberts’s advance bodyguard approaching Pretoria 251 British guns captured by the Boers 251 Lord Roberts and staff approaching Pretoria (Lord Kitchener is on the white horse, Lord Roberts is the first leading figure at the right) 253 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener with staff entering Pretoria at the railway station, June 5, 1900. The two locomotives on the right, with Boer engineers, were started immediately afterwards in an attempt to escape to the Boer lines 255 Gordon Highlanders entering Pretoria, June 5, 1900 259 Types of the crowd who watched the British entry 259 Lord Kitchener bidding good-by to the foreign _attachés_ after the capture of Pretoria 265 BLUE SHIRT AND KHAKI CHAPTER I. The New Soldier and his Equipment [Illustration: A Guard at Pretoria.] When the Second Division under General Lawton swarmed up the fire-swept hill of El Caney, through an unremitting storm of bullets, Colonel Arthur Lee, of the British Royal Artillery, exclaimed, “I would not have believed it!” Two years later, when Lord Roberts’s army of ragged khaki poured into Pretoria after their two thousand miles’ march from the Cape, Captain Slocum, of the United States Infantry, said, “Tommy Atkins is certainly a wonder.”