43, and
Appendices.
Strength of Boers, estimated, 1, 2, 38, 265, 377, 409, 410, 459.
Strength of regular army and armed forces of the British Empire, 89-95.
Strength of various arms, average, 438.
Suffolk Hill. _See_ GRASSY HILL.
Suffolk regiment (1st). _See_ REGULAR UNITS.
Sugar Loaf Hill, 218, 225.
Sunday's river, 59, 127, 149, 335.
Sunday's River Passes, 58.
Sunnyside, 387, 442.
Supplies, 19, 43, 44, 67, 106, 108, 200, 206, 209, 210, 216, 310, 315,
418, 421, 443;
supply department, 422.
Surprise Hill, 188, 190, 334, 335.
Survey department of Cape Colony, 14.
Swaatbouys Kop (or Nodashwana), 152.
Swanepoel, Commandant, 50, 295, 298, 301.
Swaziland, 50, 65.
Swaziland commando. _See_ COMMANDOS.
Swaziland Police, 49, 81, 84.
Swinkpan, 227, 231, 232.
Symons, Major-General Sir W. Penn. K.C.B., 45-47, 123-137, 160.
Taaiboschlaagte, 280.
Taal language, 121.
Tabanyama (mountain), 58, 335, 338.
Tabanhlope, 269.
Table Bay, 119, 206.
Table Mountain (Cape Town), 48.
Table Mountain (Belmont), 218-228.
Tactics, Lord Roberts' instructions for, 445-450.
Talana, 123-142.
Tarkastad, 287.
_Tartar_, H.M.S., 120, 263, 265, 332.
Tasmania, 309;
offers assistance, 34.
Tasmanian Infantry. _See_ COLONIAL UNITS.
Taungs, 382.
Telegraph, essential to Lord Roberts' scheme, 431.
Tembu tribe, 208.
Teneriffe, 105.
_Terrible_, H.M.S., 117, 120, 205, 263, 265, 332.
Thaba Bosigo, 72.
Thackeray, Lieut.-Col. T. M. G., 353.
Theatre of war, 54-67.
_Thetis_, H.M.S., 120, 265.
Thomas' farm, 216, 217.
Thompson, Sir Ralph, K.C.B., 7.
Thorneycroft, Major A. W., 206, 261, 368, 369, 373.
Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry. _See_ COLONIAL UNITS.
Thornhill farm, 387.
Thwaites, Captain W., 184.
Tintwa Pass, 49, 58, 123, 157.
Touw's river, 53.
Town Guards. _See_ COLONIAL UNITS.
Townsend, Colonel E., M.D., C.B., 242.
Towse, Captain E. B., awarded the V.C., 327.
Transport (land), 413, 416-421;
delay imposed by peace wishes, during time needed for getting, 19;
difficulty because of, in having British army ready for war, 18;
early attempts made by Sir Evelyn Wood, Lord Wolseley, and Sir A.
Milner to provide, 16, 17;
harness for, 19;
impossibility of keeping British ready for war, 17;
in previous campaigns, 17;
mules for, purchased abroad, 20;
mules in South Africa, 22;
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