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Appendix

Ladysmith - Diary of a siege

By Nevinson, H W

Methuen & Co, 36 Essex Street, LONDON.  1900

Contents

I. ON THE EDGE
II. AT THE BRITISH FRONT
III. THE FIRST WEEK'S WAR
IV. BATTLE OF ELANDS LAAGTE
V. BATTLE OF TINTA INYONI
VI. THE REVERSE AT NICHOLSON'S NEK
VII. HEMMED IN
VIII. TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
IX. INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, AND REALITIES
X. ENNUI ENLIVENED BY SUDDEN DEATH
XI. FLASHES FROM BULLER
XII. THE NIGHT SURPRISE ON GUN HILL
XIII. THE CAPTURE OF SURPRISE HILL
XIV. THE SEASON OF PEACE AND GOODWILL
XV. SICKNESS, DEATH, AND A NEW YEAR
XVI. THE GREAT ATTACK
XVII. A PAUSE AND A RENEWAL
XVIII. "WITHIN MEASURABLE DISTANCE"
XIX. HOPE DEFERRED
XX. SUN AND FEVER
XXI. RELIEVED AT LAST
APPENDIX

Note:  This book has been reprinted, by kind permission of the Proprietors of the Daily Chronicle, from the full text of the Letters sent to the paper.

Illustrations

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR MAP OF LADYSMITH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD GENERAL SIR GEORGE STEWART WHITE, VC, GCIE, GCB, GCSI PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF ELANDS LAAGTE
LOMBARD'S KOP IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE SHELTERS THE DRIFT AND WATERING-PLACE BULWAN
HOSPITAL IN TOWN HALL AFTER A SHELL BREECH BLOCK FROM GUN HILL A PICTURESQUE RUIN HEADQUARTERS AFTER A 96LB. SHELL
EFFECT OF 96LB. SHELL ON A PRIVATE HOUSE SPECIMEN OF BOER SHELLS INDIAN BAKERY GENERAL RT. HON. SIR R.H. BULLER, VC, GCB, KCMG, KCB
     
SKETCH PLAN OF COUNTRY SOUTH AND WEST OF LADYSMITH