84 Gen Gaselees report 28 Aug 1899, SM 3/1–12
85 W–L 24 Aug 1899, RCSA W I, 267. W’s min 5 Sep 1899, RCSAW I, 269. L–C 21, 26 Aug, 1 Sep 1899, Cham JC/5/51/67, 72–3
86 SJ 16–17, 20–8 Sep 1899
87 White–J White 3 Sep 1899, Whi 98B. Wreckoned on only ‘9,800 bayonets, 1,900 sabres and 42 guns’ W’s min 3 Oct 1899, RCSA W I, 272. L–C 9 Sept 1899, Cham JC 5/51/80. SM 1/3
88 Ibid and W–C 12 Sep 1899, Cham JC/5/51/81
89 C–L 14 Jun, 10 Sep 1899, Lan 5/26–7, 7/8–9
90 SJ 16 Sep. Times 17 Sep, Rawlinson diary 19 Sep-6 Oct 1899 Rawl 7–1
91 L–C 9 Sep, Cham JC/5/51/80.L–C12,15 Sep 1899, Lan X/18, 26
92 G. Wyndham–Balfour 8 Aug 1899, Bal 49803
93 Buller–brother 3 Nov 1899, Bull (PRO) WO 132/6. Buller–L WO 32/7902/287. Buller’s ev RCSA W III, 170
94 Buller–A. Herbert 13 Oct 1899 Herb Butler Buller 33–8
95 Buller–L 9 Sep 1899, Lan 2/3–4
96 Buller–Bigge 4 Jan 1900, Big
97 L–C (rejecting Buller’s proposal) 9 Sep 1899, Cham JC/5/51/80
98 Quoted Symons 91
99 Lyttelton Eighty Years 200–1
100 ‘Pom’ MacDonnell–Curzon 29 Aug 1899 (Cy) PC
101 White–brother 3 Sep 1899, Whi 98B/
102 White–brother 19 Sep, 1 Oct, Whi 98B/264–9. White–Ly White 19 Sep, 1 Oct 1899, Whi 101/I. DNB
103 White–brother 6 Oct 1899, Whi 98B
104 White–Miss Warrender 15 Sep 1899, Whi 97B
105 White–Ly White 1 Oct 1899, Whi 101/I. Cf Sandberg Twintig Jaren 204–9
106 White–brother 1 Oct 1899, Whi 98B. Rawlinson diary 19 Sep-6 Oct, Rawl MS cit
107 White–brother 6 Oct 1899, Whi 98B. SJ 26 Sep 1899. Hely–Hutchinson-C 25 Sep 1899, CO 879/59/598
108 Rawlinson diary 6 Oct 1899, Rawl 7–1
109 White–Ly White 6 Oct 1899, Whi 101/I. Rawlinson diary 7 Oct 1899, Rawl 7–1.1. Hamilton–wife 5 Oct 1899, Ham25/i2/4
110 White–Ly White 6 Oct 1899, Whi 101/I
CHAPTER 9: THE ULTIMATUM
Head of chapter Smuts’s plan 4 Sep 1899, SP 1, 322–9
1 Standard and Diggers News, Volksstem, Cape Times 2–4 Oct 1899. Batts Pretoria From Within (nd) 27–32
2 Kotzé Memoirs II, 239–40. L. Amery Days of Fresh Air 129
3 Hofmeyr–Smuts 30 Aug 1899, SP I, 307–8
4 Fischer–Smuts 24 Aug, SP I, 303–4. Steyn–Kruger 1 Sep, Mil 11/247 (SA 82). Fischer–Steyn 1, 2 Sep 1899, Mil 60/248, 254
5 ‘If Steyn had got Kruger this week to accept your Bloemfontein terms we could not have rejected them.’ Sel–borne-Milner 7 Oct 1899, Mil 17 (SA 31)
6 See Marais 316. Wilde 133–5. Le May British Supremacy 25–6
7 TH I, 376. Barnard Botha 6–12. Meintjes De la Rey 78–82. Viljoen Reminiscences 28–9
8 A Century of Wrong sponsored by F. Reitz, written by Smuts (see SP I, 476)
9 Smuts strategic plan, SP I, 322–9
10 New York World interview (dated 12 Oct 1899) quoted Cook Rights 263
11 Fischer–Hofmeyr 13 Sep 1899, Mil 60/296
12 Kruger–Hofmeyr (via Fischer) 16 Sep 1899, Mil 60/
13 SP I, 242, 249
14 SP I, 323
15 Ibid 323–9
16 Volksstem, Cape Times 9 Sep 1899
17 Ibid 23 Sep 1899
18 De Beer 25 Sep, Kruger–Steyn 26 Sep 1899, Mil 60/360, 377
19 Kruger–Steyn 29 Sep 1899, Mil 60/390
20 P. Kruger Memoirs II, 331–6. SJ 27 Sep 1899. L. Amery Days of Fresh Air. Breyt I, 132
21 C. De Wet–Steyn 30 Sep 1899, Mil 60/
22 SI 3 Oct 1899. Breyt I, 133
23 C 9530/65–7
24 SJ 2, 6, 8, 9 Oct 1899
25 C 9530/65–7
26 Cape Times 29 Sep, 3 Oct 1899. Burleigh Natal 10
27 Totals ace official railway report: 8,369 men, 5,381 horses, 398 wagons, 1,909 oxen, 1,525 tons of stores. Cd 625/2$
28 L. Amery Days of Fresh Air 132–7. Times 7 Nov 1899 p. 12. Reitz Commando 20
29 Symons–White 17 Oct 1899, Whi 56A
30 Mouton Joubert 230–1
31 Mouton 230 quoting Joubert’s telegram book in KG 346
32 Ibid
33 Reitz–Leyds 9 Oct 1899W. Leyds Correspondentie Tweede Verzameling I, 42–3. Breyt I, 158–62 quoting KG 353
34 Breyt I, 31–106. Hillegas With the Boers passim. TH II, 53–97
35 Reitz Commando 22–3
36 Ibid
37 Lehmann First Boer War 223–305. Col G. F. R. Henderson draft of OH, University of Witwatersrand, Cullen Library 99/A320
38 Breyt 1,146–72. Cf OH 1, 48, TH II, 121. For origin of plan see Kruger–Steyn 27 Sep 1899, Mil 60/381a
39 Kretschmar diary 16–24 Aug 1899 Cd 624/36–8. See also railway report in Cd 625/25
40 Joubert’s telegram–book KG 346 quoted Mouton 321. Breyt I, 166–7. Trichard 114–19
41 Reitz 23
42 Volksstem 21 Oct 1899. Mouton 234
43 Reitz 23
44 TH II, 142
45 See previous chapter note no
46 ST 7–9 Oct 1899. Rawlinson diary 7–11 Oct 1899 Rawl 7–1. Hely–Hutchinson-C 7 Oct 1899, CO 179/206
47 Rawlinson diary loc cit
48 Ibid
49 Note on interview, Cd 44/26
50 Maurice’s unpub draft chapter for OH I, in PC
51 Si Cd 44/26
52 White’s ev RCSAW III, 144
53 Lt Crum memoir 16 Aug 1899, Cru 1/11
54 Symons–White 29 Jul 1899, Whi 52
55 Lt Crum memoir 29 Jun, 2, 9 Aug 1899, Cru
56 Lt Max Trench diary 13–19 Oct 1899, Tren
57 Ibid. Cf Maj. G. Bird’s diary 15 Oct 1899, Bird
58 Symons–White 2 Sep 1899, Whi 52
59 Lt Trench diary 16 Oct 1899, Tren
60 Lt Kentish 12 Oct 1899, Kent
61 Lt Crum 12 Oct 1899, Cru
62 White–L 10 Oct 1899, Whi 56A
63 V. Sampson and I. Hamilton Anti–Commando 94
64 Times, Daily Telegraph, Globe 10 Oct 1899. Moberly Bell–L. S. Amery 13 Oct 1899, Times
65 Times 7, 9–10 Oct 1899
66 L–C 10 Oct 1899, Cham JC/s/s 1/89
67 Balfour–C 2 Oct 1899, Cham JC/5/5/ Mins of Buller 24, 25, 28 Sep 1899, RCSAWl, 270–1
68 See note 66
69 RCSAW I, 84–96. And Stopford’s ev RCSA W II, Q951
70 RCSA W 1, 37 note only 20,000 reservists were fit. Times 9–14 Oct 1899. OH I, 101
71 Garvin III, 471–2
72 Gooch Courtney 381–2. Gardiner Harcourt II, 508–12
73 J. Wilson CB 311
74 C–Hicks-Beach 7 Oct 1899, Cham JC/10/4/2/53
75 See I. Wilson 314
76 Balfour–C 2 Oct 1899, Bal 49773/173–6
77 C–M 6 Dec 1899, Mil 17 (SA 31)
78 Salisbury–C (cypher tel) 9 Oct 1899, ChamJC/5/67/129
79 Salisbury–C 19 Sep 1899, Cham JC/5/67/124
80 C–Balfour 3 Oct 1899, Bal 49773/177–8. C–Hicks Beach 2 Oct 1899 quoted Marais 322
81 Drus Documents 182–6. Garvin III, 463–4. Wilde 144–5
82 L–C 15 Sep, C–L 7 Oct 1899, Cham JC/5/51/82, 88
83 RCSAWl, 270–5
84 C–Hicks-Beach 7 Oct 1899, Cham JC/10/4/2/S3
85 C–Hicks Beach 29 Sep 1899, Drus Documents 188
86 Times, Daily News 16 Oct 1899
87 Buller–A. Herbert 13 Oct 1899, Herb
88 Buller–Sir A. Bigge 4 Jan 1900, Big
89 Buller’s ev RCSAW III, 170
90 See note 86
91 Hansard 19 Oct 1899 LXXVII cols 254 foll Garvin III, 481–9
CHAPTER 10: BURSTING THE MOULD
Head of chapter M–R 6 Jun 1900, Bobs 45
1 SJ 14 Oct 1899. Cape Times 16 Oct 1899
2 Standard and Diggers News, Cape Times 4–9, n-14 Sep 1899
3 Standard and Diggers News 5–9 Sep, Cape Times 5, 9
Sep 1899. Ly E. Cecil-‘Tim’ Oct 1899 Sal (Hat)
4 M’s diary 8 Oct 1899, Mil (dep 69)
5 Ly E. Cecil–Tim’ 8, 30 Oct 1899, Sal (Hat). Ly Milner My Picture Gallery 137–8
6 M’s diary 6, 7 Oct 1899, Mil (dep 69). M–C 10 Oct 1899, CO 879/59/709. Times Oct 1899. See also ST 20 Oct
7 M’s diary 24 Sep 1899, Mil (dep 69)
8 M’s diary 7 Oct 1899, Mil (dep 69)
9 Ibid 1–7 Oct 1899. See Ly E. Cecil-‘Tim’ 2, 8 Aug, 2, 20 Sep etc. 1899, Sal (Hat)
10 M’s diary 9 Oct 1899, Mil (dep 69)
11 M–Dawkins 16 Jan 1902, Mil 28 (SA 46). Cook Rights 265
12 MP I, 521. SJ 20 Sep, 1 Oct 1899. BP’s ev RCSAW III, 423–4
13 OH I, 52–3, 455- CT no lc
14 M’s diary 9–18 Oct 1899, Mil. SJ 9–18 Oct 1899. M–Selborne II, 18 Oct 1899, MP I 559, H. 378
15 See tel from Mafeking to M SJ 1 Oct 1899. M–C 23 Aug 1899 CO 859/56/262. See M’s diary
16 TH IV, 436
17 Selborne–M 7 Oct 1899, Mil 17 (SA 31)
18 Lord E. Cecil–Ly E. Cecil Kent Record Office
19 C–M 6 Dec, Wyndham–M 13 Oct, Haldane-M 11 Oct 1899, Mil 17 (SA 31). Grey–M40ct, 1 Nov 1899, MP I, 560–1
20 M–Rendel 30 May 1900, Rendel–M 23 Jun 1900, Mil 24, 27. M–R 6 Jun 1900, Bobs 45
21 Fitzpatrick–Balfour 1 Jan 1900, Bal 49853/158
22 M–Edith Gell 26 Jan 1899, Gell 525
23 M–Rendel 25 May 1900, Mil 24 (SA 108)
24 M–Fitzpatrick 28 Nov 1899 MP II, 35
25 See quote at head of chapter
26 M–Rendel 21 Jul 1899 MP I, 473
27 Cecil Rhodes disapproved of Jameson going to Ladysmith, acc his letter quoted Sarah Wilson 190. Cf Frank Rhodes 130–1, and Colvin Jameson II, 189
28 The actual losses directly caused by the war were calculated at about £4.2m. See Wybergh’s report 11 Dec 1901, Cd 903
29 M–Asquith 18 Nov 1897, Asq
30 Ibid. M–Fitzpatrick 28 Nov 1899, MP I, 35–6
31 The Rev J. Darragh–M 17 Oct 1899, Mil 17 (SA 31)
32 See chap 9 note 81
33 Marwick–Hely-Hutchinson 5 Oct 1899, Cd 43/130–1
34 Marwick–Hely Hutchinson report 19 Oct 1899, Cd 43/167–71. M–C6 Oct 1899 enc cables, CO 879/59/853
35 For African reactions see P. Warwick Black Industrial Protest 1–2
36 Capt G. Thompson 29 Oct 1899, PC. L. March Phillipps 165
37 C. L. Anderson–Fitzpatrick 7 Mar 1900, Fitz
38 S. Evans–Sir E. Vincent 15 Nov, S. Evans–Fitzpatrick 30 Oct, 3 Nov 1899, Fitz
39 C. L. Anderson 7 Mar 1900, MS cit Evans–Fitzpatrick 22 Nov 1899, Fitz
40 Wybergh–Fitzpatrick 4 Aug 1900, Fitz
41 C. L. Anderson MS cit. S. Evans–Fitzpatrick 11 Nov, S. Evans–Sir E. Vincent 14 Nov 1899, Fitz
42 M’s diary 18–19 Oct 1899, Mil (dep 69). M–C 18 Oct 1899, CO 879/207/14
43 H. Hutchinson–C 7.32 a.m. 20 Oct 1899, CO 179/206/814
PART II
CHAPTER 11: TAKING TEA WITH THE BOERS
Head of chapter Lt Kentish—parents 30 Sep, 12 Oct 1899, Kent Hely–Hutchinson-M 20 Oct 1899, Mil 17 (SA 31)
1 Gunner Netley tapes, PC. Monypenny Times 18 Nov 1899 (report 27 Oct)
2 Sir G. White despatch 2 Nov 1899, SD I, 3–6.OHI, 123, 45 6. Breyt 1, 215–36. TH II, 141–74. Barnard Botha 22–5
3 Lt Kentish letters Oct 1899, Kent. Lt Crum letters & Memoir, Cru
4 PPW 23 quoting letter of 16 Oct 1899
5 Romer & Mainwaring Dublin Fusiliers 6. Lt Stirling Times 8 Dec 1899. Lt Crum MS cit. Maj. Burnett 18th Hussars 12–13
6 Lt Crum letters & memoir, Cru
7 Lt Trench diary 20 Oct 1899, Tren
8 Maj. Bird diary 20 Oct 1899, Bird
9 Netley tapes and Netley diary 20 Oct 1899, PC
10 Netley diary 20 Oct 1899, PC II
11 Lt Trench MS cit Maj. Kerin diary 25–6, Ker
12 Netley tapes, PC. Romer & Mainwaring 7
13 Lt Trench MS cit
14 Ibid. Netley tapes, PC
15 Maj. Burnett loc cit
16 See Maj. Marling’s diary entry 255, 266 in response, presumably, to W. T. Stead’s best-selling pamphlet, Shall I slay my Brother Boer? published London Sep 1899
17 Netley diary 20 Oct 1899, PC. Netley tapes and Kerin diary, 26 Ker. Lt Trench MS cit
18 PPW 30 quoting NCO’s letter
19 Symons–White 17 Oct, Symons–White (tel) 18 Oct 1899. Whi 52, 56B. Kerin diary 23 Ker. Maurice Rawlinson (quoting journal) 45
20 OH I, 128–9 and Map Vol I. TH IL 157. EGO
21 See note 19
22 Symons–White 29 Jul 1899 Whi 52. For tactical criticism of Majuba see chap 8 of G. F. R. Henderson’s unpublished draft of OH, loc cit
23 Crum diary 2 Aug 1899 quoted memoir II, Cru. TH II, 157–8
24 Symons’s ADC quoted Bishop Baynes My Diocese 61
25 Col Möller 15 Jun 1900 RCSA W III, 402. Möller was censured by Roberts for incompetence and later put on half pay. Marling 254
26 White SD I, 5
27 James High Pressure 112–13,127–8. Times 18 Nov 1899. Times MS letterbooks 1899
28 Barnard Botha 22–3. Breyt I, 217
29 PPW 31
30 Ibid 31
31 Ibid 31
32 Maj. Kerin 28 Ker. Maj. Donegan diary entry 20 Oct 1899 PC
33 TH II, 159–60
34 Maj. Bird diary 5 Bird. Romer & Mainwaring 7–9
35 TH II, 160–1
36 Ibid 161
37 Symons’s ADC quoted PPW 33
38 Maj. Kerin diary 33 Ker. Cf PPW 35
39 Maj. Bird loc cit
40 Netley diary loc cit
41 Ibid. Trench MS cit
42 TH II, 164–5. (Capt Nugent’s identity established by Kerin’s diary 48 Stirling’s letter 8 Dec 1899)
43 Ibid 165–6
44 Barnard 23. Breyt I, 226–7 quoting Meyer’s official report 21 Oct 1899
45 Lt Stirling Times 8 Dec 1899. Lt Kentish loc cit. Kerin loc cit
46 OH I, 462. Cf Breht I, 233–6
47 OH I, 138–41. Breyt 1, 224–6
48 White SD I, 6. Conan Doyle Great Boer War 91–2
49 Netley loc cit
50 Breyt I, 227–8. OH I, 137. Note Barnard 22. Half Meyer’s force stayed out of firing-line
CHAPTER 12: WHITE FLAG, ‘ARME BLANCHE’
Head of chapter Prosper Paris–Gerty 24 Oct 1899 Man
1 Gordon 10 Nov 1899 quoted in PP W 54
2 Ibid 54, 56. White SD I, 6. Macready Annals 76. Haldane typescript autobiography I, 133–203 Hal
3 Gardyne Gordons III, 15, 457–9
4 PPW loc cit
5 Haldane–mother 22 Oct 1899, Hal. Gardyne III, 16, 26
6 White loc cit. OH I, 160–1, 464. TH II, 178–9. Breyt I, 241–2
7 Steevens Cape Town to Ladysmith 43–7. White loc cit. OH I, 163
8 French Life 3, 56. Goldmann With General French frontispiece
9 Haig diary 20 Oct 1899, letter to Henrietta 26 Oct 1899, Haig 148, 157
10 Sampson and Hamilton Anti–Commando 112
11 Ibid 49, 79–82, 98–9. Steevens 68
12 Breyt I, 197–9. Viljoen Reminiscences 23. Schiel 23 Jahre 417–19
13 Haig diary & letter loc cit. OH I, 160–1. TH II, 177–9
14 OH map vol I. TH II, 181–2
15 Lt–Col Coxhead PRAI XXVII 439, 441–2
16 OH I, 464. Breyt I, 197
17 TH II, 183
18 Ibid II, 182
19 See Nevinson The Siege of Ladysmith Changes and Chances. Steevens op cit Burleigh Natal
20 Steevens 47–8. Times 11 Nov 1899 (report of 25 Oct). TH II 184
21 Nevinson 36–8
22 Jacson Record of a Regiment 14–19. White SD I, 6–7. OH I, 164–5
23 Drummer Boulden 24 Mar 1900, Devonshire Regt Museum Exeter
24 Manchester Regt Records Man. OH I, 166–7
/> 25 [Newbigging] Times 8 Dec 1899. Another Manchester Officer Times 18 Nov 1899
26 OH I, 164
27 Haldane unpublished autobiography 140 Hal. Gardyne III, 18
28 Haldane diary 21 Oct 1899 Hal. Ibid 18–19. Steevens 51–2. TH II, 185–6
29 Steevens 52. (James) Times 18 Nov 1899
30 James loc cit
31 Sampson & Hamilton Anti–Commando 113–4
32 Gardyne III, 21–2
33 Sampson & Hamilton loc cit
34 Gardyne III, 21–2
35 Newbigging loc cit
36 White loc cit OH I, 169. TH II, 187–8
37 Newbigging loc cit
38 OH L 169–70. TH II, 188
39 Steevens 54. OH I, 167–8
40 Nevinson 38. Steevens 54
41 OH I, 138–40
42 Cable in Natal Mercury 22–3 Oct 1899. James High Pressure 124–6
43 Steevens 55
44 Nevinson 3 8
45 OH I, 169. Gore Green Horse 18–24. PPW 64–5 quoting ptes in 60th and 5th Lancers. TH II, 190–1
46 Officer quoted in Times 13 Dec 1899
47 Pte of 5th Lancers PPW 65. Nevinson Ladysmith 38
48 Trooper in 5th Lancers quoted PP W 64–5
49 Nevinson loc cit
50 Steevens 64. TH II, 192–3
51 Manchester officer quoted Times 18 Nov 1899. See for example Gunner Williams’s boasting quoted in PPW 66
52 Steevens 56–65. TH loc cit
53 Sampson and Hamilton Anti–Commando 114–15
54 Breyt I, 256–60
55 TH II, 188–9
CHAPTER 13: THE KNOCK–DOWN BLOW
Head of chapter White–brother 27 Oct 1899, Whi 98B/183
1 Netley tapes & diary 22–3 Oct 1899, PC
2 Lt Trench 21 Oct 1899 (written 25), Tren Lt Kentish 21 Oct 1899 Kent. Netley diary, PC. Cpl Hallahan quoted PPW 75
3 ‘Long Tom, as everyone in the forces called the Big Gun on Impati Hill’ Lt Trench 21 Oct 1899, Tren. See Breyt I, 266. Cf OH I, 143. 145. TH II, 198–9
4 Netley diary, PC
5 Netley tapes, PC
6 White SD, I, 8 para 28. Note Krupp howitzer was actually short-barrelled
7 Military Notes 24–5. See C–Devonshire 5 Nov 1899, Garvin III, 491
8 OH I, 143
9 Maj. Donegan 21–2 Oct 1899, PC. Kerin 61, 59, Ker
10 Trench loc cit. Kentish loc cit
11 White–Buller 31 Oct 1899, SD 9. OH I, 146
12 OH I, 144
13 OH I, 145–6. Breyt I, 265–8. Trench 22 Oct 1899, Tren
14 Maj. Bird diary 22–3 Oct 1899, Bird. OH I, 145–6
15 OH I, 146
16 ‘This must sound like a dreadful reverse at home’ Lt Trench 23 Oct 1899 Tren. Maj. Donegan loc cit
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