BOER ATTACK ON LADYSMITH REPULSED. Jan. 10.--LORD ROBERTS AND LORD KITCHENER ARRIVE AT CAPETOWN. Jan. 10.--Forward movement for relief of Ladysmith resumed. Jan. 11.--Dundonald seizes pont on Tugela at Potgieter's Drift. Jan. 18.--Buller makes SECOND ATTEMPT to relieve Ladysmith. Dundonald having crossed Tugela engages Boers near Acton Homes. Crossing of Tugela by Warren and Lyttelton concluded. Jan. 21.--Warren attacks Boers' right flank. Jan. 23-4.--SPION KOP captured and held during 24th, but evacuated on the night of Jan. 24-25. General Woodgate fatally wounded. Jan. 26-7.--Buller's force recrosses the Tugela. Feb. 3.--Macdonald with Highland Brigade marches out from Modder River. Feb. 5.--Buller's THIRD ATTEMPT to relieve Ladysmith commenced. Lyttelton crosses Tugela, and delivers attack on VAAL KRANTZ, which he captures and occupies. Feb. 7.--Vaal Krantz evacuated and British Force withdrawn across the Tugela. Feb. 9.--Lord Roberts arrives at Modder River. Feb. 11.--French, having been summoned from Southern Frontier, leaves Modder River with Cavalry Division and Horse Artillery. Feb. 13.--Lord Roberts at Dekiel's Drift. Feb. 15.--Lord Roberts at Jacobsdal. RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY. Feb. 17.--Rearguard action between Kelly-Kenny and Cronje _en route_ to Bloemfontein. FOURTH ATTEMPT to relieve Ladysmith. Buller presses advance on Monte Christo Hill. Feb. 19.--Buller takes Hlangwane Hill. Feb. 20.--Boers under Cronje, having laagered near Paardeberg, are bombarded by Lord Roberts. Feb. 21.--Fifth Division crosses Tugela. Feb. 23.--Buller unsuccessfully attacks Railway Hill. Feb. 26.--Buller makes fresh passage of Tugela. Feb. 27.--CRONJE SURRENDERS AT PAARDEBERG. PIETERS HILL, the main Boer position between Ladysmith and the Tugela, carried by Hildyard. Feb. 28.--RELIEF OF LADYSMITH. Clements occupies Colesberg. Mar. 5.--Gatacre occupies Stormberg. Brabant again defeats and pursues Boers. Overtures of peace made by Boer Presidents. Mar. 6.--Field Force arrives at Carnarvon to quell rising in North-West. Mar. 7.--Lord Roberts routs a large force of Boers at Poplar Grove. Mar. 10.--Lord Roberts defeats Boers at Driefontein. Mar. 11.--Overtures of peace rejected by Lord Salisbury. Mar. 13.--Lord Roberts, without further fighting, takes possession of BLOEMFONTEIN. Boers retire on Kroonstad. Mar. 27.--DEATH OF GENERAL JOUBERT. Mar. 31.--Broadwood attacked at Waterworks. During retirement R.H.A. and convoy entrapped at Koorn Spruit. Six guns lost, 350 casualties. April 3.--Detachment of Royal Irish Rifles and Mounted Infantry surrounded near Reddersburg. April 7.--Colonel Dalgety isolated near Wepener. April 15.--Chermside leaves Reddersburg to relieve Wepener. April 25.--Dalgety relieved. Boers retreat northwards, under Botha. May 10.--Zand River crossed, Boers rapidly retreating before Lord Roberts's advance.