From Midshipman to Field Marshal, المجلد 2Methuen, 1906 |
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90th Light Infantry Adjutant-General Aldershot Artillery asked assegai attack Balte barracks battalion Boers Brigade British Cairo camp Captain carried cattle Cavalry Cetewayo Chief Colonel Buller Colonial Column Commander-in-Chief Commanding officers Company Corps daylight dinner district duty Egyptian Army endeavoured fire front Garrison gave Government ground guns High Commissioner horses Inhlobane Kafir Kambula killed kraal Laager later letter Lieutenant Lord Chelmsford Lord Kimberley Lord Wolseley Luneberg Lysons Majesty Major-General March Maritzburg miles Military months morning mountain Natal Natives never Newcastle night o'clock oxen Piet Uys received Redvers Buller Regiment replied ride River rode Royal saying Secretary sent sentry shot Sir Bartle Sir Bartle Frere Sir Evelyn Wood Sir Garnet soldiers South Africa Staff officer Suakin telegram telegraphed thought told took Transvaal troops Ulundi Utrecht waggons War Office week wrote yards Zulu Army Zululand
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الصفحة 208 - ... than voice it with claims and challenges. Preserve likewise the rights of inferior places ; and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all.
الصفحة 110 - February, against any division of the country. On the 8th February, Lord Kimberley had telegraphed to Sir George Colley, " If the Boers cease from armed opposition, Her Majesty's Government will be ready to give all reasonable guarantees as to their treatment after submission, and that scheme will be framed with a view to permanent friendly settlement of difficulties." On the 1 3th February, Sir George telegraphed the purport of a letter from Mr. Kruger asking for a Royal Commission, which he was...
الصفحة 130 - ... necessity of re-occupying Lang's Nek. It was never necessary to repeat the threat, since the majority of the Commission would thereupon speedily find a way to meet the views of the Boer representatives. Sir Evelyn Wood, in his dissent, thus correctly sums up the matter : — " To contend that the Royal Commission ought not to decide contrary to the wishes of the Boers, because such decision might not be accepted, is to deny to the Commission the very power of decision that it was agreed should...
الصفحة 116 - I shall do my best to insure its success; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they ought to be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of the success.
الصفحة 119 - Commission, and on this point, which had been represented as one of paramount importance, they gave way. We talked for hours on the 1 6th, and I telegraphed that evening to Lord Kimberley as and who may develop scheme referred to in my telegram to you of Sth inst. Add that if this proposal is accepted, you are authorised to agree to suspension of hostilities on our part.
الصفحة 131 - Boers and Natives, they have overlooked, what was to him, the most important factor in the question, viz. : — the interests of the English Colonies in South Africa. The proposal for a separation of territory proceeded from Her Majesty's Government. In the month of March, when the negotiations at Lang's Nek were approaching completion, Sir Evelyn Wood submitted to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, what he considered would be (for British and Native interests) the most suitable boundaries...
الصفحة 120 - After eight hours' talk I am confirmed in the opinion expressed in my telegram of the 5th instant, namely, ' Considering the disasters we have sustained, I think the happiest result will be that after a successful action which I hope to fight, the Boers should disperse without any guarantees.
الصفحة 59 - Slade,8 by sections on the ridge, connecting the Redoubt with the main Laager. The men belonged to Garrison Companies, but I have never known a battery so exceptionally fortunate in its Subalterns. Lieutenant Nicholson, standing on the gun platform, fought his guns with the unmoved stoical courage habitual to his nature. Major Tremlett was renowned as a fearless sportsman, and both Bigge and Slade were unsurpassable ; they with their 1 Gun placed on raised ground, thus firing over the parapet. 9...
الصفحة 117 - Colley, though I would not recommend allowing them to remain in Transvaal, nor would I accept them as representatives of people. In discussing settlement of country, my constant endeavour shall be to carry out the spirit of your orders; but, considering the disasters we have sustained, I think the happiest result will be that, after accelerating successful action, which I hope to fight in about fourteen days, the Boers should disperse without any guarantee, and then many now undoubtedly coerced,...