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Defender. Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop: A Vindication
Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop: A Vindication
Table of Contents
PREFACE
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
PARENTAGE
EARLY SERVICE—GIBRALTAR AND CHATHAM
JERUSALEM, 1867 TO 1870
DOVER, SHOEBURYNESS, AND THE ORDNANCE. FACTORIES, 1871 TO 1876
SOUTH AFRICA, 1876 TO 1879
Griqualand West and the Orange Free State Boundary
Griqualand West Land Claims
Meeting with Mr. Cecil Rhodes
The Gaika War, 1878
Native Rebellion in Griqualand West and Troubles with the Bechuanas, 1878–9
CHATHAM, 1880 TO 1882
EGYPT AND ARABIA PETRÆA, 1882 TO 1883
CHATHAM, 1883–4
BECHUANALAND EXPEDITION, 1884–5
CANDIDATE FOR PARLIAMENT, 1885
SUAKIN, 1886
CHIEF COMMISSIONERSHIP OF POLICE, 1886 TO 1888
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, 1889 TO 1894
THAMES DISTRICT, 1895 TO 1898
CHAPTER I
THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
WARREN CROSSES THE TUGELA
2nd Division and attached Troops
5th Division and attached Troops
CHAPTER II
POSITION OF AFFAIRS
CHAPTER III
ADVANCE TO VENTER’S LAAGER AND ATTACK OF THE RANGEWORTHY HILLS
ATTACK OF THE RANGEWORTHY HILLS
CHAPTER IV
BOER DEMORALISATION—TACTICAL IMPORTANCE. OF SPION KOP
CHAPTER V
CAPTURE OF SPION KOP AND ITS ABANDONMENT
CHAPTER VI
AFTER WITHDRAWAL—BOER COMMENTS
CHAPTER VII
SOME CRITICISMS
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AND ARRANGEMENTS MADE
APPENDIX
EXTRACTS FROM DESPATCHES[8]
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
K
INDEX
Footnote
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Defender
Published by Good Press, 2021
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‘Lieut.-Colonel Warren has already been rewarded for his services in the Gaika war by the brevet of lieut.-colonel, but his subsequent services in Griqualand West form a distinct and very creditable episode in the history of the recent South African warfare, for which Sir Michael Hicks-Beach hopes that he may be considered entitled to fresh recognition in the form of the brevet of colonel, or such other mark of approbation as Colonel Stanley and H.R.H. the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief may think proper to recommend.
‘The operations of 1878–9 throughout South Africa should be regarded as a whole, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach trusts that officers of the Regular Army who have organised and led to victory the Colonial Levies in separate commands may be thought not less deserving of the usual military rewards than officers who have served under the immediate direction of the General Commanding-in-Chief in leading her Majesty’s Regular Troops; indeed, those of the former class have some special claims to consideration on account of the difficulties which they had to overcome; and in organising not only a combatant force, but also the Transport, Commissariat, Pay and Hospital Departments of that force, Lieut.-Colonel Warren displayed a general knowledge of his profession which marks him as an especially intelligent and valuable servant of the Queen.’
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