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Prefactory note
Roundheads
Patriotism
War considered
Natal Wedge
Deus Ex 1
Kimberley
Tragedy of errors
Tugela troubles
Ladysmith
Deus Ex 2
Alarms
Mafeking
Bloemfontein
New colony
Nec Celer
The taming
de Wet
Lord Kitchener
ORC
E Transvaal
W Transvaal
Cape Colony
The end
Commanders

A Handbook of the Boer War

Gale and Poledon Ltd, London and Aldershot, 1910

Prefatory note
i Prolegomena
    i The roundheads of South Africa
    ii Patriotism, duty and discipline
    iii War considered as a branch of sport
ii The Natal wedge
iii Deus ex machina no. 1
iv Kimberley and the siege of Rhodes
v A tragedy of errors
vi More tugela trouble
vii Ladysmith at bay
viii Deus ex machina no. 2
ix Alarms and excursions
x Baden-Powell and the siege of Mafeking
xi Bloemfontein to Pretoria
xii The new colony
xiii Nec celer nec audax
xiv The taming of the Transvaal
xv The recurrences of de Wet
xvi Lord Kitchener at work
xvii The mechanical phase
    i Orange River Colony
    ii Eastern Transvaal
    iii Western Transvaal
    iv Cape Colony
xviii The end
Commanders of divisions and brigades

Illustrations1

Northern Natal
 
Modder River and Magersfontein Stormberg Colenso
Spion Kop and Vaalkrantz Spion Kop Final Advance on Ladysmith Siege of Ladysmith
Riet and Modder Drifts Paardeberg Poplar Grove and Driefontein Sannah's Post
Magaliesberg District Diamond Hill Brandwater Basin Orange Free State
   
Southern Transvaal Noitgedacht Nek    

Footnote 1:

The thanks of the Author are due to the Army Council for permission to copy the maps and plans in the Official History of the War, and to L.S. Amery, Esq., for permission to copy the plans in the fifth volume of the Times History of the War.