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INTRODUCTION.

 

 

War Declared - - - October 11th, 1899.
Orange Free State annexed - May 12th, 1900.

Transvaal annexed - - September 1st, 1900.

HE conclusion of the South African Campaign adds to the British Empire a
territory the extent of which is estimated at some 170,000 miles, “or 50,000
miles more than the area of the United Kingdom. For many years the Transvaal

and the Orange Free State—which under these names have now disappeared from the
map—ran down like a formidable wedge right into the heart of our South African
possessions. This, in itself, Would not have been a serious matter, but for the difficulties
which arose between the Republics and the Empire, based on conflicting social, commercial
and political ideas. Early in the century the Boers withdrew from the Cape, because they
would not relinquish the practice of slavery. A brave people, with many rugged virtues, ..
they possessed a natural cunning, combined with a Pentateuchal code of morality, which
rendered it difficult, if not impossible, for them to assimilate the advanced and liberal ideas
of the British Empire. The divergence of views was several times more or less severely
apparent until the crushing of the Zulu power brought matters to a head. ~The Zulu nation
rose in revolt against the Boers because of the cruelty of the latter towards the black races;
and if Britain had not annexed the Transvaal and shed the blood of her troops, it is
probable that the Boers as a nation would have been wiped off the face of the earth by

their infuriated antagonists.

As soon as the Zulus were subdued the Boers rose in revolt against British Rule,
and the Gladstone Administration, with mistaken magnanimity, restored them their
independence. This step brought little'benefit, and the discovery of the immense mineral
treasures of the Transvaal merely acCentuated the prevalent ill-feeling: It was a political
fight between the inflowing Europeans for fairplay on the one hand, and on the other the

Republics for their bare existence. The disabilities grew, and the Boers, with President

 

 

 

 

 

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Kruger for mouthpiece, shuffled with Britain’s oft-repeated appeals and demands for
legitimate reform. It was at length clear that the Boers were merely gaining time whilst
they completed gigantic military preparations. For the latter they gave the jameson raid
as an excuse. It is certain, however, that they were influenced largely by what they

interpreted as promises of European intervention.

At length the storm broke, and when it did so it found England unprepared for war.
Dark weeks and months ensued, relieved by many acts of superb gallantry, but marked by
many a disaster to British arms. At last, however, the tide began to turn, and with the
active assumption of supreme command by Lord Roberts our dogged enemies felt with
increasing force the avenging might of Britain. The relief of Kimberley, Ladysmith, and
Mafeking, and the capture of Cronje and his army, sent a thrill of exultation through the
Empire, already consolidated through the war, after a fashion which must have greatly
discomfited Oom Paul and his supporters. Later on came the occupation of Bloemfontein,
. Johannesburg, and Pretoria; after which the war ceased to possess paramount interest for
the world, which felt that the “game was up,” and that for the Boers to prolong resistance
was futile and absurd. ‘ The spectacle of the two Presidents dodging hither and thither by
train bearing their “seats of government ” with them became a byword, more especially
when it was remembered that President Kruger had deliberately abandoned his “ vrow ” to
the tender mercies of the detested British Whom he had vowed to drive into the sea. As
the struggle closed the callousness and self—seeking of Messrs. Kruger and Stein became
Imore and more evident, for to gratify their own vanity they had not scrupled to pour out
like water brave blood on both sides and to imperil the peace of South Africa for perhaps a

century to come.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the campaign, next to the superb defence
of Mafeking by the immortal Baden-Powell, was the refusal of the world to interfere on
behalf of the Boers, notwithstanding their frantic appeals, the falsehoods of Dr. Leyds, and
the fact that (through mistaken views) the bulk of civilized opinion was opposed to the
action taken by the British Empire. Seldom, if ever, has a nation, convinced of the justice
of its cause, gone so calmly to the end of its task, despite all Opposition. No grander
display of moral force has ever been exhibited. With the close of the war it is to be hoped
that increased prosperity and freedom will in time convince our quandam enemies that there
is.no grander or prouder or more profitable thing than to be loyal subjects beneath the
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Time fixed by the Boers for compliance with
their “ ultimatum” expired at 5 p.1n.

Free State Boers commandeer a Natal train.

Armoured train captured by the Boers at
Kraiipan, near Mafeking.

Reconnaissance in force from Ladysmith.

Boers march on Kimberley and Mafeking.

Transvaal flag hoisted at Newcastle.

Kimberly Isolated.

Boers repulsed at Mafeking. .

Boers reported massing near Dundee.

Armoured train affair at Spytfontein, near

Kimberley.

Railway communication with Aliwal North
interrupted.

White’s patrols find Boers at Acton Homes.

Transvaal flag hoisted at Vryburg.

Boers encountered on the Limpopo ‘by a
patrol from Tuli.

Boer commando crosses the Biggarsberg range
and attacks a train at Elandslaagte.

Boers shell British camp near Dundee, Boer '

position on Talana Hill captured by the
British under Symons.
Klipdam occupied by the Boers.
White moves out force under French to eject
Boers from Elandslaagte. Boers routed.
Yule retires from Dundee on Ladysmith via
Beith.

Death of General Symonds at Dundee.

Bombardment of Mafeking.

Action at Rietfontein.

Sharp fighting outside Kimberley.

Junction of Yule with White at Ladysmith.

Plumer has engagement with Boers near Tuli.

Enemy reported closing round Ladysmith.

General sortie from Ladysmith. Naval Guns
silence Boer siege artillery.

Surrender of part of two battalions and a
Mountain Battery at Nicholson’s Nek.

General Sir Redvers Buller lands at Cape
Town.

4,000 Boers reported concentrated at Bethulie.

Boers invade Cape Colony.

Ladysmith Isolated.

Colenso evacuated by the British garrison.

Boers reported to be invading Zululand.

Naauwpoort and Stormberg evacuated by
"British garrisons.

Cavalry action outside Ladysmith, near Dew-
drop.

The Roslin Castle (the first of the transports
conveying the Army Corps) arrives at Cape
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General attack on Ladysmith repulsed with
heavy loss to Boers.

Reconnoitring force from Orange River
engaged with Boers near Belmont.

Orders issued for mobilization of a Fifth
Division for South Africa. .

Free State flag hoisted at Aliwal North.

Armoured train wrecked by Boers near
Chieveley. Over 100 British troops ,
captured.

Sir W. Gatacre arrives at Queenstown. Sir
C. F. Clery assumes command of troops
south of Ladysmith.

Lord Methuen’s column for the relief of
Kimberley concentrated at Orange River.
Boers in Natal occupy Highlands Station, to

south of Escourt. Escourt isolated.

Gatacre moves forward.

Methuen attacks Boers at Belmont with Guards
Brigade and 9th Brigade. Boers driven
from their position.

Sortie from Kimberley.

engages Boers near Escourt.
Restores communication with Maritzburg.

Boers repulsed at Tugela Drift by Natal
troops.

Methuen attacks Boers in position at Enslin
and dislodges them.

General Sir Redvers Buller arrives in Natal.

British force moves up to F rere. '

Gatacre occupies Bushman’s Hoek.
body at Putter’s Kraal.’

Methuen engages 11,000 Boers at Modder
River. Battle lasting all day. Boers
evacuate position. '

Sortie from Kimberley.

Sixth Division for South Africa notified.

Australian and Canadian contingents leave
Cape Town for the front.

Clery arrives at F rere.

Plumer enters the Transvaal. \

Successful sortie from Ladysmith under
Hunter.

Boers attack Methuen’s line of communica-
tions at Enslin.

Plumer returns to Tuli.

Gatacre attempts night attacks on Stormberg,
but is surprised and forced to retire.

Methuen’s artillery shell Boer position to
north of Modder River camp.

Sortie of 2nd Rifle Brigade from Ladysmith.

Methuen attacks Boer position at Magersfon-
tein. British troops repulsed with heavy
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Cavalry from Frere camp reconnoitre to
Colenso and come in touch with the
enemy.

Boer attempt on Naauwpoort frustrated by
portion of French’s force under Colonel
Porter.

Engagement between mounted infantry near
Orange River and Boers. Latter retreat to
Goemansberg.

Buller advances from Chieveley against Boer
positions near Oolenso. British force re-
pulsed on Tugela with 1,100 casualties.

Mobilization of Seventh Division ordered.

Lord Roberts appointed Commander-insChief
in South Africa, with Lord Kitchener as
Chief of Staff.

Regulations issued for employment of Yeo-
manry and Volunteers in South Africa.

Formation of City of London Volunteer Corps
for South Africa announced.

Departure of Lord Roberts from Southampton.

Reported sortie from Mafeking.

Detachment from Gatacre’s force occupies
Dordrecht.

Boers appear at Victoria West.

Unsuccessful sortie from Mafeking.

Lord Kitchener joins Lord Roberts at Gib-
raltar.

Skirmish near Dordrecht. Small British
force cut off, but rescued (Dec. 3lst) by
Capt. Goldsworthy, Cape Mounted Police.
Boers defeated with loss.

Enrolment of the first draft of the City Vol—
unteer Corps for South Africa.

French attacks Boer position near Colesberg.

Col. ’Pilcher captures Boer laager at Sunnyside.

Surrender of British Garrison at Kuruman.

Boer attack 011 British camp between Molteno
and Cyphergat repulsed. Molteno evacu-
ated by Boers, Dordrecht by British.

Boer attack on French’s left flank repulsed.

Suffolk Regiment loses heavily near Rellsburg,
over [00 prisoners taken.

Boer attack on Ladysmith reI‘ulsed.

Successful British reconnaissance from Sterk-
strom towards Stormberg.

Cavalry reconnaissance from Modder River
enters Orange Free State.

Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener arrive at cape
Town

Forward movement for relief of Ladysmith
resumed.

Dundonald seizes pont on Tugela at Potgeiter’s
Drift.

Embarcation of first draft of City Imperial
Volunteers.

Detachment 1st Yorkshire and NewZealanders
repulse Boer attack 011 F rench’s advanced
post near Rensbu1g.

Patrol of N. S. W. Lanceis surplised and
captu1ed near Rensburg.

Methuen makes demonstration 1n force.

Crossing of 'l‘ugela commenced.

Dundonald having crossed Tugela engages
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1 I French,

18 Buller

18 Crossing of Tugela by Warren and Lyttelton

concluded.

20 Clery engages enemy near Venter’s Spruit.

Embarcation of second draft of City Imperial
Volunteers.

21 Warren attacks Boers’ right flank.
22 Staff of Eighth Division appointed.
23.24 Spion Kop captured and held during 24th,

but evacuated on the night of Jan. 24-25.

26 Kelly-Kenny occupies Thebus.
26-27 Warren’s Division recrosses the Tugela.
27 Embarkation of Imperial Yeomanry and final

draft of City Imperial Volunteers.

3 MacDonald with Highland Brigade marches

out from Modder River.

4 Macdonald occupies Koodoesberg.
5 Third attempt to

relieve Ladysmith com-
menced. Simultaneously with frontal
demonstration Lyttleton crosses Tugela,
and delivers attack 011 Vaal Krantz. which
he captures and occupies.

7 Vaal Krantz evacuated and British force

withdrawn across the Tugela.

8 Boer attack on Koodoesberg repulsed.

Boers in force from Colesberg threaten
B1itish right flank.

9 Lord Roberts arrives at Modder River.

MacDonald’s force recalled from Koodoesberg.

IO Boers drive in British pickets at Bastard’s

Nek and Hobkirk’s Farm.

having been summoned from
Southern Frontier, leaves Modder River
with Cavalry Division and Horse Artillery.

12 French seizes Dekiel’s Drift 011 Riet River.

Col. Hannay with Mounted Infantry
Brigade marches to Ramdam fiom Orange
River.

Sir H. Colville appointed to command of 9th
Division.

13 Lord Roberts at Dekiel’s Drift. French leaves

Dekiel’s Drift and crossing Modder at Klip
Drift captures three laagers. Gordon 15th
Hussars captures two more laagers to the
west.

14 British force under Clements falls back from

Rensburg 011 Arundel.

Rensburg occupied by the enemy.

Buller moves from Chieveley and drives
Boers from Hussar Hill.

15 Lord Roberts at Jacobsdal.

Relief of Kimberley.

16 French disperses Boers from south of Kim-

berley.

British brigade pursues Boer convoy moving
011 Bloemfontein. Part of convoy cap-
turcd.

Boer lagaar near Dordrecht captured by
Colonial troops under Brabant.

17 Rearguard action between Kelly-Kenny and

Cronje en route to Bloemfontein.
Buller presses advance 011 Monte Cristo Hill.
moves round Boers’ left flank.
Southern end of Monte Cristo Hill captured.
Colonial Division under Brabant enters
Dordrecht. ‘

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Paardeberg are bombarded by Lord
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Methuen enters Kimberley.

Boer attack on Arundel repulsed.

Hart occupies Colenso.

Fifth Division crosses Tugela.

Buller advances on Grobler’s Kloof.

Lord Roberts defeats attempted reinforcement
of Cronje.

Buller unsuccessfully attacks Railway Hill.

Montmorency, V.C., killed during reconnais-
sance of Boer position at Stormberg

Clements, reconnoitring from Arundel, com-
pels Boer retirement to Kuilfontein.

Brabant occupies Jamestown.

Buller makes fresh passage of Tugela.

Gronje Surrender: at Paardeberg.

Clements reoccupies Rensburg.

Pieter’s Hill, the main Boer position between
Ladysmith and the Tugela, carried by
Hildyard.

Relief of Ladysmith.

Clements occupies Colesberg.

Buller’s force advances to Nelthorpe.

French shells right of new Boer position
fronting Osfontein.

Brabant captures Boer position on Labus-
chagne Nek.

Gatacre occupies Stormberg.

Brabant again defeats and pursues Boers.

Overtures of peace made by Boer Presidents.

Field Force arrives at Carnarvon to quell
rising in North-West.

Lord Roberts routs a large force of Boers at
Poplar Grove.

Gatacre occupies Burghersdorp.

Clements occupies Norval’s Pout.

Jamestown occupied «by Brabant.

Lord Roberts defeats Boers at Driefontein.

Overtures of peace rejected by Lord Salisbury.

Aliwel North occupied by Brabant.

General French occupies hills commanding
Bloemfontein.

Lord Roberts without further fighting takes
possession ef Bloemfontein. Boers retire on
Kroonstad.

Barkly East reoccupied by Cape Police.

Clements crosses Orange River at Norval’s
Pont. ~

Gatacre crosses Orange River and occupies
Bethulie.

Methuen coming up from Kimberley towards
Mafeking seizes ferry at Warrenton.

Plumer having advanced southwards to Lobatsi
is forced to retire to Crocodile Pools. _

Kitchener enters Prieska and receives sub-
mission of 200 rebels.

Rouxville occupied by Kafl'rarian Rifles.

Clements occupies Philippolis. _

One Guards’ officer killed and three wounded
and taken prisoners 13 miles north of
Bloemfontein.

Kitchener leaves North-West for De Aar.

Cavalry reconnaissance from Bloemfontein
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Clements enters Jagersfontein.

Death of General Joubert.

Clements occupies F auresmith.

Methuen recalled to Kimberley.

Sir G. White leaves Cape Town for England.

Action at Karee Siding between Bloemfontein
and Brandfort. Boer position seized and
held.

Wepener occupied by Brabant’s Horse.

Broadwood with Cavalry Brigade and two
batteries R.H.A. at Thaba Nchu retires on
Waterworks pressed by the enemy.

Broadwood attacked at Waterworks. During
retirement R.H.A. and convoy entrapped at
Koorn Spruit. Six guns lost, 350 casualties.

Plumer repulsed at Ramathlabama.

Boers move round eastern flank of Bloemfon-
tein. Detachment of Royal Irish Rifles and
Mounted Infantry surrounded near Redders-
burg. "

Detachment captured.

Clements arrives at Bloemfontein.

Metheun surrounds Boers near Boshof and
takes 51 prisoners.

Colonel Dalgety isolated near Wepener.

Dalgety heavily engaged.

Buller’s advance camp at Elandslaagte shelled
by Boers.

Chermside appointed to 3rd Division, vice
Gatacre ; Pole-Carew to 1 1th Division.

Brabant advances from Aliwal North towards

Wepener. Arrival of Australian troops at
Beira. '

Chermside leaves Reddersburg to relieve
Wepener.

Hunter arrives at Bloemfontein.

Methuen’s force returning from Zwartskopjes-
fontein to Boshof heavily attacked in rear.
Attack repulsed.

Rundle with 8th Division having joined
Chermside comes in touch with enemy
before Dewetsdorp.

Eleventh Division under Pole-Carew, and two
brigades cavalry under French, leave Bloem~
fontein to assist Rundle.

Brabant having been reinforced by Hart
outflanks Boers at Bushman’s Kop.

Pole-Carew drives enemy from Leeuw Kop.

Ian Hamilton with mounted infantry re-
occupies Waterworks.

Maxwell’s Brigade seizes hills covering bridge
over the Modder at Krantz Kraal.

Warren leaves Durban to take up appoint—

ment as Military Governor of Griqualand

West.

Ninth Division supports Ian Hamilton.

Chermside occupies Dewetsdorp without
opposition.

Dalgety relieved. Boers retreat northwards,
under Botha.

Junction of French with Ian Hamilton at
Thaba Nchu.

Ian Hamilton defeats a Boer force at Houtnek.

Lord Roberts’s request to Mafeking to hold
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3 Brandford occupied. Hunter crosses the Vaal

at Windsorton. '
5 Barton engages and routs the Boers at
Ruidam.- ‘
6 Winburg surrendered.
towards Kroonétad.
7 Hunter occupies Fourteen Streams.

IO Zand River crossed, Boers rapidly retreating
before Lord Roberts’s advance. '

12 Lord Roberts enters Kroonstad without oppo-
sition, and there a Proclamation was issued
annexing the Free State, President Steyn
having retired to Heilbron, which he pro-
Claims his new capital.

Attack 011 Mafeking repulsed, 108 Boer
‘ prisoners, including Commandant Eloff,
taken.

13 Mahon, with Mafeking Relief Column
repulses attack at Koodoosrand.

I5 Buller occupies Dundee and Glencoe, having
driven the Boers from Biggersberg.

Plumer, reinforced by Canadians and Queens-
landers from Carrington’s Division, joins
hands with Mahon.

16 Mahon and Plumer engage the Boers investing
Mafeking and drive them from their western
position.

Hunter enters the Transvaal and occupies
Christiania. '

17 Buller occupies Newcastle.

17-18 Relief of Mafeking.

20 A squadron of Bethnne’s Mounted Infantry

ambushed near Vryheid. 66 casualties.

22 Ian Hamilton oCcupies Heilbron.

23 Lord Roberts advances to the Rhenoster.

24 Advance portion of. Lord Roberts’s force

. crosses the Vaal near Parys. Rundle
occupies Senekal.

27 Lord Roberts crosses the'Vaal and encamps
at Vereeniging.

Utrecht surrenders to Hildyard.

29 Lord Roberts arrives at- Germiston, taking
possession of the junction connecting
Johannesburg with Natal, Pretoria, and
Klerksdorp by railway.

30 Flight of President Kruger from Pretoria to
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30 Pretoria Arranging-to Surrender.
31 British Flag- Hoisted ‘at Johannesburg.
5 Pretoria occupied by Lord Roberts. The
President had fled, leaving Mrs. Kruger at
the capital. [50 British Officers and 3,500
men released. 7 ,
7 Fourth Derbyshires captured by the enemy at
' Roodeval.
9 Surrender of Klerksdorp.
12 Boers under Botha defeated by Lord Roberts.
Rustenberg occupied by *General Baden-

Powell. _, -

Sharp engagement at Leew Spruit.

17 General Clements victorious near ‘Nynburg.’
General Baden-Powell arrives at Pretoria.
Krugersdorp occupied by Hunter.

4 British convoy surrenders to De Wet.

Mr. Reitz ‘(Transvaal State Secretary) an-
nounces Mr. Kruger’s determination of
fighting» to the bitter end.

7 General Buller arrives'at Pretoria.

Boers defeated at Rustenberg.

British occupy Bethlehem.
prisoners released.

800 British

July 11 Squadron of ScotsGreys and 90 men 01 the

July 30 Generals

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Lincolnshire Regiment surrender to Botha

at Nitral’s Nek.

Prinsloo, Villiers, and Crowther
surrender personally to General Hunter,
with 986 men, 1,432 horses, 955 rifles, and
l Krupp 9-pounde'r.

7 Plot discovered at Pretoria to kidnap Lord
Roberts and assassinate British officers.

24 Hans Cordua executed for complicity in the
Pretoria plot.

27 Lord Roberts reports occupation of Bergendal
by Bul’ler, Swartz Kopjes by French, and
Nylstroom by‘Baden-Powell.

I Transvaal formally annexed.

2 Battle near Lydenburg between Buller and
Botha. '

4 Siege of Ladybrand raised by the Boers.

6 Lydenburg occupied by Dundonald and
Brocklehurst.

12 Kruger abandons the Transvaal.

 

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Great Britain and the Transvaal became strained on significantly of the President: “Will he speak the
account of the persistent refusal of Mr. Paul Kruger to necessary words? The sands are running down in
consent to the moderate and reasonable reforms pro- the glass. The situation is too fraught with danger, it
posed by our Foreign Office, Speaking at a Banquet is too strained for any indefinite postponement.”

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JOHN BULL: “Nevertheless, I should like to see the old gentleman take a little more interest in the
affair, and not leave it entirely to that youngster.”

This cartoon voices a certain mistrUst which
existed in the minds of a number of people at that
time, and the feeling found expression in a powerful
two-column letter which Mr. Frederic Harrison sent to

Sept. 2, 1899.

the “ Daily C/zrom'de,” appealing to Lord Salisbury, in
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Though preparing for war, the Boers also prepared European Powers, asking for their good offices on
for another development :—-—“ President Kruger has, behalf of the Transvaal Republic.”—Press Association
through Dr. Leyds, unofficially approached three of the : Telegram, September 19.

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meekly he wears it.”

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Boer contentious, and urged that everything should

Sept. 22, 1899.

still be done to prevent what would be a “shameful
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DOCTOR CHAMBERLAIN: “Yes, I know; but your case: is getting worse, and unless you swallow
this at once it may mean an operation. ”

“According to a message from London, received war with his territory as the stake. Britain’s terms
at a late hour last night,‘ President Kruger is to be for- a settlement of the dispute are of a very drastic
given the choice of swallowing a very bitter pill, or a character.”—— Wesiern Mail, Septeméer 27. '

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events occurred with which the Transvaal Government 1“ abroad soon began offering her their services, with a
had not reckoned. In the first place, the official aid “ spontaniety that left no room for doubt as to opinion
from the great Powers expected by Kruger did not i in the colonies with regard to the impending struggle.

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Oct 12, 1899.

and unintelligent obstinacy, and on the 11th of October
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Sir Redvers Buller was appointed Commander—in— ampton in the “ Dunottar Castle” on October 14th.
Chief of the British Forces, and sailed from South- Sir Reolvers and staff had a rousing send-01f.

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children.”

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amendment to the Address, proposed by Mr. Dillon, party lines the Government could not have been more
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vos ! ”

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being captured. It was at Glencoe that the Boer
first began to accumulate respect for the British
soldier, who dared everything and feared nothing. A

Oct. ‘24, 1899.

sad item of the British triumph was the reception of a
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was undoubtedly Mr. W. T. Stead, who published a impatient opposition that it was dangerous for a pro-
pamphlet and edited a periodical, the object of which Boer to enunciate his Views in public.
was to “stop the war.” The agitation met with the

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JOHN BU LL: “There: I have carried 43,000 "l‘onunies,’ and all their equipments, distances varying up to
7,000 miles in five weeks, and all without a hitch ! I don’t like boasting, but I am willing to wager there
is no one else in the world that could do it.”

 

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Empire——more especially at sea—became the admira- limited supplies, had been transported to South Africa. ' '

tiou of the world. Before the close of the struggle not

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JOUL’ERT: “ Ach, Oom Paul, vot blooming springbok ve vos to dink dot ve could efi’er beat der English ; by der
Mauser, ve vos blooming springbok !”

00M PAUL : “ You vos right, J oubert; you vos right ! Vot say you to us going to England as an ’Verti-sen'ient
for lydditewvos you dink ve could raise mealies on dot, eh 3”

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somewhat sanguine predictlon. At the time the cartoon ; never in doubt, as the British pe0ple never take their

was drawn the tide had not yet turned, and there was hands ofi' the plough till the task is finished.

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By'xthe end of November between 3,000 and 4,000 and the losses of the Republican allies were serious
Britishfi'zhad been killed, wounded, or made prisoners, enough to give even Mr. Kruger pause.

Nov. 30, 1899.

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have seen him damned e’re I’d have challenged him.”

 

It was evident from the outset that the Boers had painful one~f0r the Republics. But it is due to the
underrated the determination and the unity and the Boers to say that they fought stubbornly and with
strength. of the British people. Whether this arose much skill—in their own way.

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Great excitement was created in France, as well as Queen by the French papers, and predicted what
on the Continent at large, by a speech delivered at serious consequences might ensue if our neighbours
Leicester on November 1st by Mr. Chamberlain, in did not “mend their manners.”

which he referred to the gross attacks made upon the

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10th, but was surprised and forced to retire with great
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Dec. l2, 1899.

 

more serious repulse at Magersfontein, when General
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“The longer this struggle lasted, and the more arduous the efforts which we might be called upbn to make to bring
it to a conclusion, the more fixed would be our determination that never again should our South African

Colonies be called upon to bear the indignities, the sufferings, and the loss which they had experienced in
this struggle.”———1) UKE OF DE V ONSH [RE , at Y ark.

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commander costing us dearly in men, guns, and
prestige. The attendant carnage at the battle of
Colenso on December 15th was great. In the reverse

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the British sustained over a thousand °asualties Lord
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Kitchener were despatched to South Africa, and men
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He be the only man in the Village as couldn’t say how them generals of our’n ought to fight the Boers.”

The war brought forth the customary crop of :' expert in the field. That there was at any rate one
Wiseacres, any one of whom felt himself able to conduct } exception our cartoon shows.
affairs with far greater success “than the most skilful

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France and, Russia—was wildly excited" against Great intervention in favour of the Boers; but it came to
Britain during the war, though the Governments of nothing, as Britain made it clear there could be but
the various countries maintained a correct attitude. . one end to the war. ‘

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Kitchener as his Chief of Staff. The veteran of

Kandahar sailed from Southampton on the date of the

issue of the cartoon.

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it usually is! ”

Christmas, 1899, was one of the gloomiest spent in home to the nation, and death had spared neither the
England for many years. The war had come close palace nor the cottage.

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Mr. BULL (to Lord Strathcona): “Four hundred men, fully equipped, at your own expense; Egad, my lord,
yours is something like an offer—it will put to the blush some of my wealthy ones at home ! ! ”

 

“ The Canadian Government has under considera— raised in the north-west of Canada, for service in South
tion an offer from Lord Strathcona to equip and fit out Africa, at a cost of 1,000,000 dols.”— Ottawa Telegram.
at his own expense two squadrons, 400 strong, to be

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“ CADET TOMMY: “How have you got on for marks, Billy?”

CADET BILLY : “Oh, stunning! Two for arithmetic, three for spelling, twelve for drilling, fifteen for strategy,
and twenty for shooting ! ”

 

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of the rifle should be taught in the schools of the i be taught to drill, was given considerable acceptance.

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DOM PA UL (soliloquising): “ Ah, dot vos goot! Providence vos indeet kind to send us a vrend in dose railway
men. It vos to our benefit dot England shall be rent 011d distracted by any an’ every means, 0nd four big
Welsh railways stopped will help to do it. Ah, dot vos goot; der Welsh railway man vos mine vrend ! l ”

In the midst of the war came news of a threatened proposal come about it would have raised the price of
combined strike by the men of the Taff, Rhymney, coal, and therefore tended to hamper the Government
Barry, and Cardiff Railways. Had this ill-advised in their transport service.

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the bill, totalling up, as we now know it does, to the

Jan. 25, 1900.

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afl'airs, was defeated by a majority of 213—Athe figures
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siege of 123 days was over. Mr. Cecil Rhodes was one
of the beleaguered Britishers, and contributed greatly

Feb. 17, 1900.

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on March 13th. A formal entry was made by the evening.

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to visit me I’ll make her as wilcome as the flowers in May !

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yer whist, for it’s meself that’s not wantin’ yer blarney on this occasion, at all, at all ! ”

Her Majesty’s determination to visit the Green
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soldiers, who had fought with unsurpassed courage and

agitators, who would find a lucrative occupation gone
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with the establishment of a cordial understanding
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captured laager, and President Steyn, in reply to a “taken a large number otLee-Metloi-d rifles and dum-
remonstrance from Lord Roberts, gaire his lordship the dum bullets from the British troops.’

assurance that such bullets were not purchased or

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in more and more upon the minds of the British people, ,

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” because I have been loyal to the Flag I am a ruined man ; whilst he, who has been disloyal and has fought
against you, is now being restored to his farm and escapes all punishment ! ”

The Western Iliail Special Correspondent reported too lenient.” Rebels were offered pardon if they
that from inquiries made by him throughout a wide returned to their farms, while at this time the loyal
district in Natal and the Cape he had found the colonist was still uncertain of compensation for ruined
“universal sentiment among the loyal population' is homes.

one of fear lest the treatment of the rebels should be

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have it! Happy thought! I will try a new and original idea; I will be indisposed with a bad cold! ”

Mr. Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Opposition,
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Napoleon Bonaparte. He was accompanied by Mrs. ‘ expressed what must have been present to Mr. Kruger’s
Cronje. his private secretary, certain of his relatives, mind when thinking of his greatest field general.

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Kruger had not benefited by the lesson meted out to his i Orange capital was temporarily out off.

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Redvers Buller on the operations at Spion Kop. Lord

April 20, 1900.

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proudest toime 0V my loife, an’ I trust your Majesty will always think kindly ov us an’ believe we are not
so black as we’re sometimes painted. God bless your Majesty, and may you come agaln l”

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she had spent a most agreeable time, and had been l passed. The letter concluded “71th prayers for the

very much gratified and deeply touched by her recep- l prosperity of the Irish people.

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spectacle. I think it has taken all of us a little by
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turn doomed to disappointment. He hoped that i of peace had to return chugrined.

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that place was taken by the British he moved the seat government with a frequency that was bewildering.

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May 17, 1900.

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Crown the Victor troops with bays Waves the good old Jack to-day, Heroes, ready they to sup
Bringing blest relief! Crosses triple o’er us! The siege’s’utmost rigour !
Cheer, boys ! joyous noise! One word—~one accord—— POWELL grand ! throughout the land
Let the bells ring! Victory! Let it ring! High thy praise we fling !
Fly the flag! cause for brag— Sweet relief when past belief— Time shall ne’er thy laurels sear—~—
Glorious Mafeking! Splendid Mafeking! Glorious Mafeking!
British phlegm’s proverbial: Three parts of a year of hell— British phlegm’s proverbial!
Shake it off to-day! Hunger, thirst, and horror! There’s none of it to-day!
Just for once be frantic all— These the things to-day doth spell, City, hamlet, country, all
Give yourselves away ! And defeat to-morrow? ? Shout themselves away !
Britons glad, joyous mad— Not defeat—no dust they eat, God of Britain, ne’er from Thee
Let the welkin ring! \ Though liunger-ravening, Our humble trust take wing!
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Gallant Mafeking! In glorious Mafeking! For glorious Mafeking!
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the evening of May 18th, and the accompanying Baden Powell and the heroes who composed the
cartoon and verses appeared in the following morning’s garrison.

Western Mail. The siege-raised May 16th-—lasted

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May 22, 1900.

 

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wonder. It was not so much the importance of the
movement as the heroic stand that had been made,
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May 29, 1900.

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June 6, 1900.

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Quotation from tlze Western Mail of June 6 :—
“00m Paul may do a little more posing, and there
may be guerilla warfare, possibly even of a most
annoying character. But the bottom of the opposition

June 7, 1900.

has been knocked out, and two oligarchies—one the
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June 9, 1900.

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knew before, and soon you will be very glad I brought you here.”

 

The Hon. Clifl'ord Sifton, Canadian Minister of in any other way than other British Colonies. They

the Interior, speaking at Cardiff on June 12, said :——- should, first of all, have a military occupation and a
“The Transvaal and Orange Free State should be firm administration, and then they could extend the
made British Colonies, but it was not in accordance privileges of self-government to these people just as

with British institutions that they should be treated it was found they were fit for it.”

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grew and attracted much of the attention previously for the same remedy.
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gomg into the workhouse !

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sympathy 1n favour of Tommy Atkins, and a generous
treatment of h1s claims, as it is safe to say it was I

never roused before. One or two soldiers who had
fought in South Africa, found their way to the work-
house, and, the discovery aroused much indignation.

June 19, 1900.

 

 

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Farewell to Greatness.

 

 

CARDINAL KRUGER :——“ Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness I
This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him :
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ;
And—when he thinks, good, easy man, full surely
His greatness is aripening—nips his root,

And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur’d,

Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,

This many summers in a sea of glory ;

But far beyond my depth : my high—blown pride

At length broke under me ; and now has left me,

Weary and old with service, to the mercy

Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.”——-King Henry VIII.

 

The soliloquy of one whose vaunting ambition ground, but only at the expense of a sad expenditure
o’erleaped itself, and who was forced into the back- of blood and of treasure.

June 23, 1900.

 

 

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In guerilla warfare General De Wet proved him-
self a singularly daring and resourceful leader, and
during the final stages of the campaign was an almost
constant cause of interest and excitement. How many
times he ‘was “hopelessly surrounded ” or “completely
routed” it would be difiicult to say. In the early days

July 3, 1900.

of July, De Wet was in a hot corner in the Orange
Colony; he broke loose and in a series of zig-zag
dashes he made his way to the Transvaal, covering
1,000 miles, and doing mischief to convoys, railways,
and garrisons on the way. He had only a remnant of
his force when he joined D'elarey north—west of Pretoria.

 

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Although fairly and squarely beaten the Boers did
not give up the fight without a struggle, and towards the
end they caused numerous “unfortunate occurrences”
in the ranks of the British. Of these, the Nitrals
Nek disaster was amongst the worst. Commandant
Botha’s force suddenly descended upon a little garrison

July 13, 1900.

 

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twenty miles or so west of Pretoria, and overpowered
the Britishers by sheer force of numbers. A. squadron
of Scots Greys and two guns, and ninety men of the
Lincolnshire Regiment were captured, and there were
also losses in killed and wounded. The cartoon gives a
good idea of the Boer death struggle.

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1899.
“I command you to keep back.”

The cartoon happily represents the contrast
between the attitude of Mr. Kruger prior to October,
1899, and during the closing weeks of the war. The
events which more immediately inspired our artist
were embodied in the following from the “Western
.llail,” August 2nd:—-“ Lord Roberts reports that
Hunter received twelve hundred additional surrenders

August 3, 1900.

 

1900.

on Tuesday, including several officers. Bruce Hamilton
has also taken prisoners and guns. Olivier, With five
guns, has broken away, but Hunter estimates his
prisoners will number 4,000.” Olivier’s liberty, by-
the-bye, proved of short duration, for within a month
he and his three sons were gallantly captured by a
party of Colonial Volunteers. '

 

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Strong and stern see Britain’stand, And the Colonies around
Sword and shield within heréhand. Gather with a joyful sound
Stedfast lies her gaze ahead ; Fighting for the Mother-land,
’Neath her feet the dragon dead. Now the world doth understand !
Old Oppression—Cunning lie, Foreign foes no longer smile:
Coiled in mortal agony, Distant lone Atlantic isle
Ne’er shall rise their fangs amain See the Transvaal host enfold,
At the distant Cape again. Which housed a Buonaparte of old.

Sneered the nations, hoped the day
Of Britain’s power had passed away.

 

Though ’tis Britain ’gainst the world,
Ne’er shall be her banner furled.

Ah ! but they forgot her might, O’er the horizon now she sees
Founded firm in truth and right. Years of plenty, years of peace.
Years of peace had dulled her sword— All the old suspicion o’er,

So they dreamed with one accord-— Welded Briton, Black, and Boer,
Comes occasion, hear it ring , Forming a resistless whole—

At Ladysmith and Mafeking I One for Britain heart and soul !

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