Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: Photo by Russell and Sons, London.] SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR BY LOUIS CRESWICKE AUTHOR OF "ROXANE," ETC. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS IN SIX VOLUMES VOL. III.--FROM THE BATTLE OF COLENSO, 15TH DEC. 1899, TO LORD ROBERTS'S ADVANCE INTO THE FREE STATE, 12TH FEB. 1900 EDINBURGH: T. C. & E. C. JACK MANCHESTER: KENNETH MACLENNAN, 75 PICCADILLY 1900 CONTENTS--VOL. III. PAGE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE vii CHAPTER I PAGE THE SITUATION 1 DOINGS AT CHIEVELEY 8 CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPE AND NATAL 14 CHAPTER II PAGE MAFEKING 19 KURUMAN AND ELSEWHERE 25 MAFEKING, NOVEMBER 31 KIMBERLEY 39 CHAPTER III PAGE LIFE WITH GENERAL GATACRE 47 WITH GENERAL FRENCH 52 CHAPTER IV PAGE THE COLONIALS AT BELMONT 60 COLONEL PILCHER'S RAID 61 ACTIVITIES AND SURPRISES 68 AT MODDER RIVER 72 CHAPTER V PAGE CHRISTMAS AT LADYSMITH 79 THE ATTACK ON WAGON HILL 81 CHAPTER VI PAGE BULLER'S SECOND ADVANCE 92 THE FLANK MOVEMENT 97 THE BATTLE OF SPION KOP 104 THE THIRD GREAT EFFORT--VAAL KRANTZ 117 DISAPPOINTMENT AT LADYSMITH 125 LORD ROBERTS AT THE CAPE 131