A Handbook of the Boer War
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About this eBook
- Title
- A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- South African War, 1899-1902
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 15699
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15699
- Release Date
- April 24, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A HANDBOOK OF THE BOER WAR
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.SKETCH MAPS AND PLANS 1
- 4.PREFATORY NOTE
- 5.CHAPTER I — Prolegomena — I. THE ROUNDHEADS OF SOUTH AFRICA — II. PATRIOTISM, DUTY, AND DISCIPLINE. — III. WAR CONSIDERED AS A BRANCH OF SPORT
- 6.CHAPTER II — The Natal Wedge
- 7.CHAPTER III — Deus Ex Machina No. I
- 8.CHAPTER IV — Kimberley and the Siege of Rhodes
- 9.CHAPTER V — A Tragedy of Errors
- 10.CHAPTER VI — More Tugela Troubles
- 11.CHAPTER VII — Ladysmith at Bay
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — Deus ex Machina, No. II
- 13.CHAPTER IX — Alarms and Excursions
- 14.CHAPTER X — Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking
- 15.CHAPTER XI — Bloemfontein to Pretoria
- 16.CHAPTER XII — The New Colony
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — Nec Celer nec Audax
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — The Taming of the Transvaal
- 19.CHAPTER XV — The Recurrences of De Wet
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — Lord Kitchener at Work
- 21.CHAPTER XVII — The Mechanical Phase — I. ORANGE RIVER COLONY — II. EASTERN TRANSVAAL — III. WESTERN TRANSVAAL — IV. CAPE COLONY
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII — The End
- 23.COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS AND BRIGADES, OCTOBER 1899-JUNE 1901
- 24.INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES
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