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The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle The Great Boer War Table of Contents The Great Boer War.................................................................................................................................................1 Arthur Conan Doyle.......................................................................................................................................1 PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION.........................................................................................................2 CHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS..........................................................................................................2 CHAPTER 2. THE CAUSE OF QUARREL...............................................................................................11 CHAPTER 3. THE NEGOTIATIONS........................................................................................................17 CHAPTER 4. THE EVE OF WAR.............................................................................................................22 CHAPTER 5. TALANA HILL....................................................................................................................30 CHAPTER 6. ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN..........................................................................36 CHAPTER 7. THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH........................................................................................40 CHAPTER 8. LORD METHUEN'S ADVANCE........................................................................................46 CHAPTER 9. BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN......................................................................................55 CHAPTER 10. THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG.....................................................................................60 CHAPTER 11. BATTLE OF COLENSO....................................................................................................63 CHAPTER 12. THE DARK HOUR............................................................................................................71 CHAPTER 13. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH..........................................................................................75 CHAPTER 14. THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS..................................................................................84 CHAPTER 15. SPION KOP........................................................................................................................90 CHAPTER 16. VAALKRANZ....................................................................................................................98 CHAPTER 17. BULLER'S FINAL ADVANCE.......................................................................................101 CHAPTER 18. THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY................................................................109 CHAPTER 19. PAARDEBERG................................................................................................................116 CHAPTER 20. ROBERTS'S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN..........................................................125 CHAPTER 21. STRATEGIC EFFECTS OF LORD ROBERTS'S MARCH...........................................129 CHAPTER 22. THE HALT AT BLOEMFONTEIN.................................................................................134 CHAPTER 23. THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH−EAST....................................................................141 CHAPTER 24. THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING..........................................................................................147 CHAPTER 25. THE MARCH ON PRETORIA........................................................................................154 CHAPTER 26. DIAMOND HILLRUNDLE'S OPERATIONS..............................................................161 CHAPTER 27. THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION............................................................................166 CHAPTER 28. THE HALT AT PRETORIA............................................................................................173 CHAPTER 29. THE ADVANCE TO KOMATIPOORT..........................................................................179 CHAPTER 30. THE CAMPAIGN OF DE WET......................................................................................186 CHAPTER 31. THE GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE TRANSVAAL: NOOITGEDACHT................194 CHAPTER 32. THE SECOND INVASION OF CAPE COLONY..........................................................203 CHAPTER 33. THE NORTHERN OPERATIONS FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1901.....................211 CHAPTER 34. THE WINTER CAMPAIGN (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1901)....................................219 CHAPTER 35. THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY..................................................229 CHAPTER 36. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER, 1901)...........................236 CHAPTER 37. THE CAMPAIGN OF JANUARY TO APRIL, 1902......................................................248 CHAPTER 38. DE LA REY'S CAMPAIGN OF 1902.............................................................................256 CHAPTER 39. THE END.........................................................................................................................262 i The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION. • CHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS. • CHAPTER 2. THE CAUSE OF QUARREL. • CHAPTER 3. THE NEGOTIATIONS. • CHAPTER 4. THE EVE OF WAR. • CHAPTER 5. TALANA HILL. • CHAPTER 6. ELANDSLAAGTE AND RIETFONTEIN. • CHAPTER 7. THE BATTLE OF LADYSMITH. • CHAPTER 8. LORD METHUEN'S ADVANCE. • CHAPTER 9. BATTLE OF MAGERSFONTEIN. • CHAPTER 10. THE BATTLE OF STORMBERG. • CHAPTER 11. BATTLE OF COLENSO. • CHAPTER 12. THE DARK HOUR. • CHAPTER 13. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. • CHAPTER 14. THE COLESBERG OPERATIONS. • CHAPTER 15. SPION KOP. • CHAPTER 16. VAALKRANZ. • CHAPTER 17. BULLER'S FINAL ADVANCE. • CHAPTER 18. THE SIEGE AND RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY. • CHAPTER 19. PAARDEBERG. • CHAPTER 20. ROBERTS'S ADVANCE ON BLOEMFONTEIN. • CHAPTER 21. STRATEGIC EFFECTS OF LORD ROBERTS'S MARCH. • CHAPTER 22. THE HALT AT BLOEMFONTEIN. • CHAPTER 23. THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH−EAST. • CHAPTER 24. THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING. • CHAPTER 25. THE MARCH ON PRETORIA. • CHAPTER 26. DIAMOND HILLRUNDLE'S OPERATIONS. • CHAPTER 27. THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION. • CHAPTER 28. THE HALT AT PRETORIA. • CHAPTER 29. THE ADVANCE TO KOMATIPOORT. • CHAPTER 30. THE CAMPAIGN OF DE WET. • CHAPTER 31. THE GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE TRANSVAAL: NOOITGEDACHT. • CHAPTER 32. THE SECOND INVASION OF CAPE COLONY. • CHAPTER 33. THE NORTHERN OPERATIONS FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1901. • CHAPTER 34. THE WINTER CAMPAIGN (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER, 1901). • CHAPTER 35. THE GUERILLA OPERATIONS IN CAPE COLONY. • CHAPTER 36. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER, 1901). • CHAPTER 37. THE CAMPAIGN OF JANUARY TO APRIL, 1902. • CHAPTER 38. DE LA REY'S CAMPAIGN OF 1902. • CHAPTER 39. THE END. Project Gutenberg Etext of The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan The Great Boer War 1 The Great Boer War Doyle. E−text editor's note: It may come as a surprise that the creator of Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The then 40−year−old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was knighted in 1902 for his work with a field hospital in Bloemfontein. Doyle's vivid description of the battles is probably thanks to the eye−witness accounts he got from his patients. This, the best book on the Boer War I've encountered, is a long out of print lost classic that I stumbled across in a Cape Town second−hand bookstore. Robert Laing. Proofed by Sue Asscher [email protected] PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION. During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full and accurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute mistakes made have been few in number, and that I have never had occasion to reverse, and seldom to modify, the judgments which I have formed. In this final edition the early text has been carefully revised and all fresh available knowledge has been added within the limits of a single volume narrative. Of the various episodes in the latter half of the war it is impossible to say that the material is available for a complete and final chronicle. By the aid, however, of the official dispatches, of the newspapers, and of many private letters, I have done my best to give an intelligible and accurate account of the matter. The treatment may occasionally seem too brief but some proportion must be observed between the battles of 1899−1900 and the skirmishes of 1901−1902. My private informants are so numerous that it would be hardly possible, even if it were desirable, that I should quote their names. Of the correspondents upon whose work I have drawn for my materials, I would acknowledge my obligations to Messrs. Burleigh, Nevinson, Battersby, Stuart, Amery, Atkins, Baillie, Kinneir, Churchill, James, Ralph, Barnes, Maxwell, Pearce, Hamilton, and others. Especially I would mention the gentleman who represented the 'Standard' in the last year of the war, whose accounts of Vlakfontein, Von Donop's Convoy, and Tweebosch were the only reliable ones which reached the public. Arthur Conan Doyle, Undershaw, Hindhead: September 1902. CHAPTER 1. THE BOER NATIONS. Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for
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