The Road to Infamy (1899-1900): Colenso, Spioenkop, Vaalkrantz, Pieters, Buller and Warren |
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action Acton Homes advance ammunition army arrived artillery attack Bastion Hill battalions battery battle battle of Colenso Blake-Knox Boers brigade British Buller's Campaign Bulwana Burleigh camp Cape Town cavalry Chieveley Churchill Coke Colenso Colonel Thorneycroft command Commission Crofton crossing defence Division donga Durban enemy enemy's February fighting fire Frere guns Hart's Hill Hlangwane horses Ibid infantry J.B. Atkins January kopjes Lord Roberts Lyttleton miles morning move night officers operations Orange Free orders Pieters pontoon position Potgieter's Drift published railway Rangeworthy received Regiment relief of Ladysmith relieve Ladysmith replied retirement rifle river road sent shell side Sir Charles Warren Sir George White Sir Redvers Buller soldiers South Africa Spearman's Spioenkop Despatches Spruit staff summit telegram telegraphed told trenches Trichardt's Drift troops Tugela Tugela River Vaalkrantz wagons War Office Watkin Williams Wolseley Woodgate wounded writes wrote