By Bennet Burleigh
Second Edition
Chapman and Hall, London, 1900
CONTENTS
Introduction
I. Through the Republics—General Joubert's Views
II. Reminiscences op Dundee
III. The Truth about Eland's Laagte
IV. Farquhar's Farm and Nicholson's Nek
V. Beleaguered Ladysmith
VI. Threatening Estcourt
VII. Some Unpleasant Truths
VIII. Invested Estcourt
IX. Joubert's Retreat from Estcourt
X. The Camp at Frere
XI. General Buller's Arrival
XII. General Buller's Advance
XIII. Humour by Helio
XIV. Battle of Tugela River — how General Buller's Plans miscarried
XV. Incidents of the Battle of Colenso
XVI. Further Stories of the Fight
XVII. Traction-engines at work
XVIII. Buller's Force preparing for New Move
XIX. A Period of Inaction
XX. Fierce Battle at Ladysmith
XXI. Buller's March to Springfield
XXII. How the Tugela was crossed
XXIII. A Week of Battles
XXIV. Spion Kop—Blunders and Delays
XXV. Retirement from Spion Kop
XXVI. Another Attempt
XXVII. The Failure of Vaal Krantz
Epilogue
Appendix : The Boer Assault on Ladysmith
Introduction
The following chapters sent home by Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the Special War Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, are published with only the smallest possible change from the form in which they appeared in the daily newspaper. Soon after the failure of General Buller at Vaal Krantz, Mr. Burleigh left the seat of war in Northern Natal, and transferred himself to the western sphere of campaign with Lord Roberts. A very short epilogue, not from his pen, narrates the conclusion of the Natal Campaign. In an appendix will be found an account written by Mr. McHugh, a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph who was imprisoned in Ladysmith, of the great attack made by the Boers on January 6th, which was so valiantly repulsed by General White's garrison.
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