Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet
by J. D. Kestell
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kestell, J. D. (John Daniel), 1854-1941
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- Military chaplains -- South Africa -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 37083
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37083
- Release Date
- August 14, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THROUGH SHOT AND FLAME — THROUGH SHOT AND FLAME
- 2.PART I HOPE — CHAPTER I I JOIN THE HARRISMITH COMMANDO — CHAPTER II A NIGHT MARCH — CHAPTER III BESIEGERS AND BESIEGED — CHAPTER IV GENERAL BULLER'S FIRST GREAT ATTEMPT TO BREAK THROUGH — CHAPTER V PLATRAND — CHAPTER VI THE FIRST OF OUR DARK DAYS
- 3.PART II ENDURANCE — CHAPTER I TO NAUWPOORT — CHAPTER II ON THE BANKS OF THE LITTLE CALEDON — CHAPTER III THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF GENERAL PRINSLOO — CHAPTER IV TO PRESIDENT STEYN AND GENERAL DE WET — CHAPTER V WANDERING — CHAPTER VI WHAT HAPPENED NEAR WINBURG AND AT LADYBRAND — CHAPTER VII THE TREK FROM KORANNABERG TO GENERAL DE WET — CHAPTER VIII OUR EXPERIENCES AS A MOUNTED COMMANDO — CHAPTER IX ON THE WIDE PLAINS — CHAPTER X VENTERSBURG — CHAPTER XI WITH GENERAL DE WET TO THE ORANGE RIVER—THE TAKING OF DE WET'S DORP — CHAPTER XII BETWEEN TWO FULL RIVERS — CHAPTER XIII INCESSANTLY HARASSED BY THE ENEMY — CHAPTER XIV SPRINKHAANS NEK, 14TH DECEMBER 1900 — CHAPTER XV CHRISTMAS 1900 — CHAPTER XVI EVERYONE GOES TO HIS OWN DISTRICT — CHAPTER XVII THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FARMS — CHAPTER XVIII PRESIDENT STEYN ALMOST CAPTURED — CHAPTER XIX DAYS OF THANKSGIVING AND HUMILIATION — CHAPTER XX ANOTHER BRITISH PROCLAMATION — CHAPTER XXI HOW THE PRESIDENT PASSED HIS TIME — CHAPTER XXII A DESPATCH FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC — CHAPTER XXIII THE PRESIDENT RETURNS TO THE PLAINS — CHAPTER XXIV THE ENGLISH LAY WASTE THE COUNTRY ABOUT LINDLEY — CHAPTER XXV TWO IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS — CHAPTER XXVI OUR CASE GROWS MORE AND MORE DESPERATE — 1902. — CHAPTER XXVII THE HOLOCAUST OF WOMEN — CHAPTER XXVIII A GREAT DRIVE — CHAPTER XXIX TO THE TRANSVAAL
- 4.PART III RESIGNATION — CHAPTER I "WILL THIS LEAD TO PEACE?" — CHAPTER II A CONFERENCE WITH LORD KITCHENER AND LORD MILNER — CHAPTER III THE MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE AT VEREENIGING — CHAPTER IV SWIMMING AGAINST THE STREAM — CHAPTER V THE BITTER END — CHAPTER VI EXIT — EPILOGUE
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