Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop
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About this eBook
- Author
- Defender
- Title
- Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop: A Vindication
- Credits
- Produced by John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- Spion Kop, Battle of, South Africa, 1900
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63356
- Release Date
- October 1, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SIR CHARLES WARREN AND SPION KOP
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH — PARENTAGE — EARLY SERVICE—GIBRALTAR AND CHATHAM — JERUSALEM, 1867 TO 1870 — DOVER, SHOEBURYNESS, AND THE ORDNANCE FACTORIES, 1871 TO 1876 — SOUTH AFRICA, 1876 TO 1879 — Griqualand West and the Orange Free State Boundary — Griqualand West Land Claims — Meeting with Mr. Cecil Rhodes — The Gaika War, 1878 — Native Rebellion in Griqualand West and Troubles with the Bechuanas, 1878–9 — CHATHAM, 1880 TO 1882 — EGYPT AND ARABIA PETRÆA, 1882 TO 1883 — CHATHAM, 1883–4 — BECHUANALAND EXPEDITION, 1884–5 — CANDIDATE FOR PARLIAMENT, 1885 — SUAKIN, 1886 — CHIEF COMMISSIONERSHIP OF POLICE, 1886 TO 1888 — STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, 1889 TO 1894 — THAMES DISTRICT, 1895 TO 1898
- 5.CHAPTER I — THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR — WARREN CROSSES THE TUGELA — 2nd Division and attached Troops — 5th Division and attached Troops
- 6.CHAPTER II — POSITION OF AFFAIRS
- 7.CHAPTER III — ADVANCE TO VENTER’S LAAGER AND ATTACK OF THE RANGEWORTHY HILLS — ATTACK OF THE RANGEWORTHY HILLS
- 8.CHAPTER IV — BOER DEMORALISATION—TACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF SPION KOP
- 9.CHAPTER V — CAPTURE OF SPION KOP AND ITS ABANDONMENT
- 10.CHAPTER VI — AFTER WITHDRAWAL—BOER COMMENTS
- 11.CHAPTER VII — SOME CRITICISMS — PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AND ARRANGEMENTS MADE
- 12.APPENDIX — EXTRACTS FROM DESPATCHES [8] — A
- 13.B
- 14.C
- 15.D
- 16.E
- 17.F
- 18.G
- 19.H — K
- 20.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:
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