Volume 5 — Introductory material
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
CHAPTER I
The Disaster at Koorn Spruit
The Reddersburg Mishap
Escape of Prisoners from Pretoria
Preparations for Action
The Battle of Boshop, April 5
CHAPTER II
Mafeking, April
Affairs in Rhodesia
CHAPTER III
The Siege of Wepener
Operations for Relief
The Tentacles at Work
CHAPTER IV
The Great Advance—
From Bloemfontein, Brandfort, and the Vet to Welgelegen, May 9
From Thabanchu to Winburg and Welgelegen (General Ian Hamilton), May 9
Towards the Zand River to Kroonstad, May 12
CHAPTER V
Mafeking, May
With Colonel Mahon’s Force
On the Western Frontier
The Relief
How the News was Received by the British Empire
CHAPTER VI
From Kroonstad to Johannesburg
CHAPTER VII
General Rundle’s March to Senekal
The Highland Brigade
Lord Methuen’s March from Boshop to Kroonstad, May 29
The Battle of Biddulph’s Berg, May 28, 29
Fighting on the Western Border, May 30
CHAPTER VIII
General Buller’s Advance to Newcastle
CHAPTER IX
The Interregnum at Pretoria
From Johannesburg to Pretoria
APPENDIX
Rearrangement of Staff
Deaths in Action and from Disease