amount of public interest. The first is the gallant stand which Colonel Plumer with a mere handful of men has made on the Transvaal-Rhodesia frontier. He has not only prevented the Boers from invading Rhodesia, but he has been able to clear them out of the surrounding country and to make a memorable march southward. The object of his march was to relieve a garrison which may be said to have supplied the most romantic episode of the war. At Mafeking, the frontier village from which Dr. Jameson started on his famous raid, Colonel Baden-Powell was beleaguered by a large Boer force, which was at first under command of the redoubtable Cronje. The actual investment took place about the middle of October, and there is no authentic news that it is ended even yet. It is impossible to exaggerate the admiration which has been felt for the little garrison, whose real sufferings will probably be found to have eclipsed even those of Ladysmith, and who may well repeat on their own behalf Sir George White's proud boast "that at all events he had kept the British flag flying." INDEX. AFRIKANDER Bond, the sym- 30. Battles (continued)— Nicholson's Nek, 39, 88. Rietfontein, at, 86. Scenes and sounds of modern, 219. Spion Kop, of, 95. Capital of the Orange Free Captured by Andries Pre- Taken by Lords Roberts, 316. Anecdotes about, 202. As slave-drivers, 10. At home, 61. Boastful because of their vic- tories, 22. Camps: Adjuncts of, 136. Boers, the (continued)— At the beginning of the war, Cannot be compared to the Characteristic aims of, 9. Disastrous effect of foreign agencies among, 6. Endeavour of to shake off the British yoke, 15. Botha, Commandant, 272. Gin, extensively used by, 161. by, 13. Horses of, found on Modder River Battle-field, 163. Intermarriage of, 62. Open letter to a Field-Cornet by Julian Ralph, 249. Boers, the (continued)- Places of danger in the battles Reason of the British defeat Retrogression of, 23. Revolt of the Transvaal Boers, 20. Ride to the Front on inferior Rude graves made by on the Seldom seen in battle, 232. Natives by, II. 232. Ultimatum issued by, 36. Wonderful trenches of, 160. Brakfontein Range, Movement In South Africa at the out- Officers of: Characteristics of, 55. Splendid qualities of the, 57. British Army (continued)— 125. British Casualties: Colenso, at, 93. Elandslaagte, at, 86. Glencoe, at, 83. Graspan, at, 146. Modder River Battle, at, 156. British Generals : Babbington, General, 261. Brigadier-Gen- eral, 149, 165, 261. Symons, Sir William Penn, Walker, Sir Forestier, 54. Yule, General, 83. British Government slow to realise the task before it,38. British officers: Baden-Powell, Colonel, 318. Bond, Captain, 155. Carleton, Colonel, 88. Douglas, Colonel, 261. Gough, Colonel, the Hon. G. H., 108. Hall, Major, 116. Hamilton, Colonel, 85. Keith-Falconer, Lieut.-Colo- nel, 119. Kekewich, Colonel, 267. Mess of the Wessex Fusiliers, Money, Colonel, 112. O'Meara, Major W. A. T., Plumer, Colonel, 318. Reason why the Boers can single them out, 119. 273. The flower of England's aris- Webster, Lieutenant, 268. British reply to the Boer Ulti- British transports ordered to British troops: Despatched in force after Oct. 31, 1899, 39. Moved nearer the frontiers of British troops (continued) — the Free State and Trans- vaal, 37. Movements of from Capetown 150,000 men sent out, 41. 40. Buller, General Sir Redvers : Successful in relieving Lady- CAMPS, Boer : Harrismith, at, 38. Sandspruit, at, 38. Volksrust, at, 38. English first spoken in the Contrasts between British sol- Idlers and millionaires in, 68. Railway station of, excite- ment at the, 47. With Methuen's army, 204. Coldstream Guards the first to Colenso, British troops at, 80. Colonial contingents furnished Cronje, Commandant : Asks for an armistice, 315. |