CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE—Vol. V.
Reading edition
MARCH 1900.
31.—Loss of British convoy and seven guns at Koorn Spruit.
APRIL 1900.
4.—Capture of British troops by the Boers near Reddersburg.
5.—General Villebois killed near Boshop, and party of Boer mercenaries captured by Lord Methuen.
General Clements received the submission of 4000 rebels.
British occupation of Reddersburg.
7.—Skirmish near Warrenton.
9.—Colonial Division attacked at Wepener.
11.—General Chermside promoted to command Third Division, vice General Gatacre, ordered home.
20.—Boer positions attacked at Dewetsdorp.
23.—General Carrington arrived at Beira.
25.—Wepener siege raised.
General Chermside occupied Dewetsdorp.
Bloemfontein Waterworks recaptured.
26.—Sir C. Warren appointed Governor of Griqualand West.
27.—Thabanchu occupied.
28.—Fighting near Thabanchu Mountain.
MAY 1900.
1.—General Hamilton captured Houtnek.
5.—British occupation of Brandfort.
Lord Roberts’s further advance to the Vet River.
6.—The Vet River passed and Smaldeel occupied.
7.—General Hunter occupied Fourteen Streams.
8.—Ladybrand deserted by the Boers.
9.—Capture of Welgelegen.
Mafeking Relief Force reached Vryburg.
10.—Battle of Zand River.
Occupation of Ventersburg.
12.—Lord Roberts occupied Kroonstad without resistance.
Commandant Eloff attacked Mafeking, and was captured by Col. Baden-Powell.
13.—General Buller advanced towards the Biggarsberg.
14.—Occupation of Dundee.
15.—Occupation of Glencoe.
Mafeking Relief Force defeated the Boers at Kraaipan.
16.—Christiana occupied.
17.—General Ian Hamilton occupied Lindley.
Colonel Mahon, at the head of the relief force, entered Mafeking.
Lord Methuen entered Hoopstad.
18.—Occupation of Newcastle.
20.—Colonel Bethune’s Mounted Infantry ambushed near Vryheid.
22.—General Ian Hamilton occupied Heilbron after a series of engagements. The main army, under Lord Roberts, pitched its tents at Honing Spruit, and General French crossed the Rhenoster to the north-west of the latter place.
23.—Rhenoster position turned.
24.—British Army entered the Transvaal, crossing the Vaal near Parys, unopposed.
27.—The passage of the Vaal was completed by the British Army.
28.—Orange Free State formally annexed under the title of Orange River Colony.
The Battle of Biddulph’s Berg.
29.—Battle of Doornkop: Boers defeated.
Lord Roberts arrived at Germiston.
Kruger fled his capital at midnight amid the lamentations of the populace.
30.—Occupation of Utrecht by General Hildyard.
Sir Charles Warren defeated the enemy near Douglas.
31.—Battalion of Irish Yeomanry captured at Lindley.
The British flag hoisted at Johannesburg.
JUNE 1900.
5.—The British flag hoisted in Pretoria.
MAP SHOWING THE LINES OF ADVANCE FROM BLOEMFONTEIN TO PRETORIA. (The Rand District and the Movements around Pretoria are shown on Map at p. 186.) EDINBURGH AND LONDON: T. C. AND E. C. JACK.
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