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The Project Gutenberg eBook, On Commando, by Dietlof Van Warmelo
Title: On Commando
Author: Dietlof Van Warmelo
Release Date: February 24, 2005 [eBook #15160]
Language: English
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ON COMMANDO
BY
DIETLOF VAN WARMELO
WITH A PORTRAIT
DIETLOF VAN WARMELO
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1902
Colonial Library
PREFACE
This book was written in 1901, while its author was a prisoner at Ahmednagar. It was written in Dutch, and has been put into English by a young lady from what was the Orange Free State.
The author is a friend and relation of mine, son of a clergyman in the Transvaal, and of old Afrikander stock on both sides. His book is the more valuable because of the absence of all literary pretensions, and it may be taken as truly representative of the Afrikander spirit, which has been so much misconceived in England.
FREDERIK VAN EEDEN
WALDEN, N. HOLLAND,
July, 1902
CONTENTS
| Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | v | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Foreword | 1 | ||
| Chapter | I | AT THE BOUNDARY--ENTRANCE INTO NATAL--DUNDEE--LADYSMITH | 3 |
| Chapter | II | SIEGE OF LADYSMITH--BATTLE OF THE ROOIRANDJES--BLOWING UP OF THE CANNON |
14 |
| Chapter | III | THE EIGHT-DAY BATTLE OF THE TUGELA--TALK OF INTERVENTION--RELIEF OF LADYSMITH |
25 |
| Chapter | IV | DEWETSDRIFT--RETURN TO, AND FLIGHT FROM, PRETORIA | 35 |
| Chapter | V | TREK FROM MIDDELBURG TO RUSTENBURG--BATTLE OF SELIKATSNEK | 43 |
| Chapter | VI | GUERILLA LIFE ON THE MAGALIES MOUNTAINS--NARROW ESCAPE OF PRESIDENT STEYN AND GENERAL DE WET |
58 |
| Chapter | VII | WITH PRESIDENT STEYN TO PRESIDENT KRUGER | 68 |
| Chapter | VIII | WITH PRESIDENT STEYN IN THE BOSCHVELD--LOST | 76 |
| Chapter | IX | PRACTICAL HINTS--ADVENTURE ON THE SABIE--NORTH OF LYDENBURG | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@15160@[email protected]#Page_86" class="pginternal" |