The Road to Infamy (1899-1900): Colenso, Spioenkop, Vaalkrantz, Pieters, Buller and Warren

action Acton Homes advance ammunition army arrived artillery attack battalions batteries battle battle of Colenso Blake-Knox Boers brigade British Bulwana camp Cape Town cavalry CHAIRMAN Chieveley Churchill Coke Colenso Colonel Thorneycroft Commission Crofton crossing Davitt December defence Division donga Durban enemy enemy's February fighting fire Frere guns Hlangwane horses Ibid infantry J.B. Atkins January kopjes Lansdowne London Lord Roberts Lyttleton Michael Davitt miles military morning mounted move naval night operations Orange Free orders Pieters position Potgieter's Drift Pretoria railway Regiment Relief of Ladysmith relieve Ladysmith replied retirement rifle river road Royal 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 Zulu