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Map—The Battlefields of Pretoria 73 Commando’s Nek, Magaliesberg 79 A Capital on Wheels 94 Map—Lydenburg Campaign 104 Barberton 107 Harrismith 113 Major-General Brabazon 155 Brigadier-General Broadwood 155 Lieut.-Colonel Dalgety 161 Hon. Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson 169 Major-General Hutton, C.B. 171 Colonel Kekewich 172 Lieutenant Roberts, V.C. 182 Lieutenant-Colonel Thorneycroft 186 Captain Towse, V.C. 186 Surg.-General W. D. Wilson 189

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE—Vol. VI.

JUNE 1900.

5.—The British flag hoisted in Pretoria.

7.—The 4th Battalion Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) captured by the enemy at Roodeval.

9.—Klerksdorp surrendered to General Hunter.

11.—Lord Methuen gained a complete victory over De Wet.

12.—Almond’s Nek having been forced the previous day, the Boers evacuated Laing’s Nek and Majuba at nightfall, and General Buller encamped four miles north of Volksrust.

The battle of Diamond Hill. Lord Roberts defeated Botha 15 miles east of Pretoria. The Boers retreated in the night farther east.

13.—The Boers continued their aggressions on the Senekal-Ficksburg line. The Senekal-Winburg telegraph line was damaged. General Lyttelton occupied Wakkerstroom.

14.—Rustenburg occupied by General Baden-Powell.

Botha’s rearguard surprised and “thoroughly routed” by General Ian Hamilton’s Mounted Infantry.

Position on Zand River attacked by 800 Boers with three guns. Enemy driven off by General Knox.

15.—Column left Pretoria to meet General Baden-Powell and repair telegraph between Pretoria and Rustenburg.

18.—General Baden-Powell arrived at Pretoria.

General Hunter occupied Krugersdorp.

19.—Lord Methuen defeated De Wet at Heilbron.

20.—Extinction of rebellion in Cape Colony. Surrender of De Villiers.

22.—Lord Dundonald occupied Standerton.

24.—General Clements defeated the Boers at Winburg.

General Ian Hamilton occupied Heidelburg.

26.—Boer attack repulsed near Senekal, and enemy’s laager burned.

27.—Attack on British at Roodeval Spruit. Boers beaten off.

JULY 1900.

1.—Generals Hunter and MacDonald joined hands at Frankfort.

4.—General Buller’s forces and those of the Commander-in-Chief joined at Vlakfontein.

Entire railway from Natal to Johannesburg in hands of the British.

General Paget drove the enemy from strong positions towards Bethlehem.

7.—General Buller arrived at Pretoria.

Bethlehem captured by Generals Clements and Paget. De Wet put to flight.

11.—Squadron of Scots Greys, five companies of the Lincolnshire Regiment, with two guns of the O Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, captured at Nitral’s Nek. General Smith-Dorrien successfully engaged the Boers near Krugersdorp.

16.—Determined attacks by Boers on left flank of British posts in the Pretoria district. Enemy driven off with loss.

19.—General Little engaged De Wet near Lindley, and broke up his forces.

21.—Advance begun from Pretoria east, along Delagoa Bay Railway.

A supply train, with 100 Welsh Fusiliers, captured near Honing Spruit.

23.—The Black Watch capture a hill at Retief’s Nek. The Highland Light Infantry were compelled to retire from a steep hill above the Nek.

25.—Lord Roberts’s force reached Balmoral on the way to Middelburg. French’s Cavalry and Hutton’s Mounted Infantry put Boers to flight six miles south of Balmoral.

Boers flee in disorder before Lord Roberts’s advance. General French crosses Oliphant’s River.

26.—Philip de Wet, younger brother of Christian