The Relief of Mafeking

About this eBook

Author

Young, Filson, 1876-1938

Title

The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900

Credits

E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Mafikeng (South Africa) -- History -- Siege, 1899-1900

Category

Text

eBook-No.

23875

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23875

Release Date

December 16, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING
2. 2.HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY MAHON'S FLYING COLUMN; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME EARLIER EPISODES IN THE BOER WAR OF 1899-1900 — BY — FILSON YOUNG
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — Part I. — ENGLAND IN TIME OF WAR — Part II. — IN THE WAKE OF THE ARMY — Part III. — LORD ROBERTS'S ADVANCE TO BLOEMFONTEIN — Part IV. — AN EXPEDITION WITH LORD METHUEN — Part V. — WITH THE FLYING COLUMN TO MAFEKING
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.ENGLAND IN TIME OF WAR
7. 7.HOW THE RESERVES CAME UP
8. 8.HOW THE ARMY LEFT ENGLAND
9. 9.HOW THE WOUNDED CAME HOME
10. 10.IN THE WAKE OF THE ARMY
11. 11.THE LONG SEA ROAD
12. 12.SCENES AT CAPE TOWN
13. 13.IN THE EDDIES OF A GREAT WHIRL
14. 14.MAGERSFONTEIN AND KIMBERLEY
15. 15.PAARDEBERG
16. 16.LORD ROBERTS'S ADVANCE TO BLOEMFONTEIN
17. 17.THE BOER PANIC AT OSFONTEIN
18. 18.THE MARCH ON DREIFONTEIN
19. 19.THE BATTLE OF DREIFONTEIN AND THE MARCH ON BLOEMFONTEIN
20. 20.RETRACING THE STEPS OF THE ARMY
21. 21.AN EXPEDITION WITH LORD METHUEN
22. 22.IN THE FIELD AGAIN
23. 23.THE CAPTURE OF BOERS AT TWEEFONTEIN
24. 24.AN ELUSIVE ENEMY
25. 25.A SURPRISE ON THE MARCH
26. 26.UNDER THE RED CROSS FLAG
27. 27.WITH THE FLYING COLUMN TO MAFEKING
28. 28.A STRATEGIC SECRET
29. 29.THE DEPARTURE FROM KIMBERLEY
30. 30.FROM TAUNGS TO VRYBURG
31. 31.NEARING THE GOAL
32. 32.WE REPEL AN ATTACK AND JOIN FORCES WITH PLUMER
33. 33.THE FIGHTING ON THE MOLOPO
34. 34.MAFEKING AT LAST
35. 35.A MEMORIAL OF THE SIEGE
36. 36.GOOD-BYE TO MAFEKING

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