Lessons of the War
by Spenser Wilkinson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wilkinson, Spenser, 1853-1937
- Title
- Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Garrett Alley, and the Project Gutenberg 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.
- 15110
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15110
- Release Date
- February 19, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Garrett Alley, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team — LESSONS OF THE WAR — Being Comments from Week to Week — To the Relief of Ladysmith
- 2.BY SPENSER WILKINSON
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LESSONS OF THE WAR — Being Comments from Week to Week — To the Relief of Ladysmith
- 6.THE EVE OF WAR
- 7.THE MILITARY ISSUES
- 8.A WEEK'S CAMPAIGN
- 9.PLAYING WITH FIRE — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.HOW WEAK POLICY LEADS TO BAD STRATEGY — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.TWO VIEWS OR TRUE VIEWS?
- 12.BULLER'S PROBLEM
- 13.FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS
- 14.THE DELAY OF REINFORCEMENTS
- 15.THE NATION'S PROBLEM
- 16.MORE AWAKENING
- 17.THE NATION'S BUSINESS
- 18.WANTED, THE MAN
- 19.THE STRATEGY OF THE WAR
- 20.THE DECISIVE BATTLE
- 21.SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS
- 22.THE ELEVENTH HOUR
- 23.TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN
- 24.A COMMANDER
- 25.CRONJE'S SEDAN
- 26.THE BOER DEFEATS
- 27.THE COLLAPSE OF THE BOER POWER
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