4. _MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT_ PAGE MAP--THE SEAT OF WAR 9 SKETCH OF POSITIONS AT MAFEKING 20 OUTPOST AND INTRENCHMENT AT MAFEKING 24 FACSIMILE OF HANDWRITING OF COL. BADEN POWELL 32 PLAN OF KIMBERLEY 40 SPLINTER PROOF SHELTER AT KIMBERLEY 43 MAP OF MOVEMENTS OF GATACRE AND FRENCH 51 MAP OF COLONEL PILCHER'S RAID 62 LORD DUNDONALD'S GALLOPING GUN CARRIAGE 70 MAXIM AUTOMATIC GUN OR POM-POM 75 MAP OF LADYSMITH 87 MOUNTAIN BATTERY 97 SKETCH, &C., OF SPION KOP 107 PLAN OF ENGAGEMENT OF SPION KOP 111 PLAN OF ENGAGEMENT OF VAAL KRANTZ 120 BRITISH 7-POUNDER FIELD GUN 126 SIEGE OF LADYSMITH 128 NAVAL 12-POUNDER FIELD GUN 132 MR. KRUGER'S AUTOGRAPH 134 SOUTH AFRICAN SCOUT 163 12-1/2-POUNDER FIELD GUN (C.I.V.) 172 MAP OF POSITION AT COLESBERG 179 SKETCH OF POSITION AT COLESBERG 181 MAP ILLUSTRATING MOVEMENT TO KOODOESBERG 187 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE--VOL. III. DECEMBER 1899. 17.--Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, K.P., G.C.B., V.C., &c., appointed Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, with Lord Kitchener of Khartoum as his Chief of the Staff. War Office issued orders under which the remaining portion of the Army A Reserve were called up; and large reinforcements were to proceed to South Africa without delay. General Gatacre advanced from Sterkstroom to Putters Kraal. General French established his headquarters at Arundel. Offers of Second Contingents by the Colonies accepted. 18.--Additional Battalions of Militia embodied. There were now fifty-four Battalions of Militia embodied. Sir Charles Warren and the Staff of the Fifth Division left Cape Town. Reconnaissance by General French. Sortie from Ladysmith. 19.--Important order issued from the War Office, announcing that the Government had decided to raise for service in South Africa a Mounted Infantry force, to be called "The Imperial Yeomanry." The force to be recruited from the Yeomanry. 21.--Mr. Winston Churchill arrived at Lourenco Marques after an adventurous journey. 23.--Departure of Lord Roberts from London and Southampton for the Cape. 24.--Dordrecht occupied by General Gatacre. Sortie from Mafeking.