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Fighting Leaders of the British in South Africa
The article profiles British commanders to lead the war against the Boers, praising Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener while noting others like Buller, Methuen, Gatacre, Warren, Kelly-Kenny, and Warren’s Spionkop disaster role. It contrasts martial reputations, ages, heights, and prior campaigns from India, Sudan, Bechuanaland, and Afghanistan, with expectations and the shift from “expedition” to sustained campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
War Office
Lord Roberts
Magersfontein
Modder River
Tranavaal
Buller
Pretoria
India
Thdla
Lord Kitchener
Sudan
British War Office
Empire
Bobs
St Paul's
Tommy
Frederick Sleigh Roberta
Eton
Khodagange
Kandahar
Kabul
Afghanistan
Louis Cavagnari
Burrows
Malwand
Ayub Khan
Woment
Methuen
Winder
Majuba Hii
Cape
Gladstone
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
of Khartum
Gatacre
Egypt
Kitchener
Moltke
Pitteen
M Tuitet
Omid
Warren
England
Lord Wolseley
Red River
Modder
Lerton
Bechuanaland
Kelly-Renny
Methuen's
Light Horse
William Forbes Gatacre
Waterloo
Stormberg
Royal Military College
Sandhurst
Aldershot
Bombay
Kelly-Kenny
China
Abyssinia
Charles Warren
Spionkop