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| A Guard at Pretoria | 17 |
| Captain Arthur Lee, R.A., attaché with General Shafter in Cuba | 19 |
| Captain Slocum, U.S.A., attaché with Lord Roberts in South Africa | 19 |
| British soldiers visiting the U.S. troop-ship Sumner, en route to the Philippines | 23 |
| British officers at Malta, watching the setting-up exercises of American soldiers | 27 |
| A company of the Eighth U. S. Infantry in the field, Lieutenant M. B. Stuart | 33 |
| A review of the Life Guards in London | 33 |
| Horse Guard on duty at headquarters, London | 38 |
| Possible candidates | 41 |
| Persuasion by sergeant-major | 41 |
| British recruits at fencing practice | 45 |
| British recruits at bayonet practice | 45 |
| A musician of the Gordon Highlanders, age, seventeen | 51 |
| A Boer fighting “man,” age, twelve. Twice distinguished for bravery in action. He fought at Spion Kop, Colenso, Dundee, and Ladysmith | 51 |
| Colonel Napier’s frame for recruit-drill at Aldershot | 55 |
| One of the exercises in British recruit-drill | 55 |
| Setting-up exercises of American soldiers during their visit in Malta | 58 |
| Recruit drill in the British army | 58 |
| American cow-boy with Canadians in South Africa | 60 |
| Dangebhoy hospital cart used in South Africa | 63 |
| The Twelfth Lancers in South Africa | 67 |
| General French examining the enemy’s position during the battle of Diamond Hill | 67 |
| Heliographing from Diamond Hill to Lord Roberts in Pretoria | 71 |
| Burial at Arlington of 426 American soldiers who fell in Cuba | 77 |
| Gathering the dead after the battle of Diamond Hill | 79 |
| American volunteer officer | 90 |
| A cadet drill at the West Point Military Academy | 93 |
| Generals Chaffee, Brooke, and Lee reviewing the army in Cuba | 93 |
| Major Eastwood, Twelfth Lancers | 94 |
| Colonel Beech, Egyptian Cavalry | 94 |
| Sir John Milbanke, V.C. | 94 |
| Colonel Chamberlain, Military Secretary | 94 |
| A Canadian officer | 94 |
| British Colonel of Volunteers | 96 |
| Colonel Peabody, U. S. Volunteers | 96 |
| Staats Model Schoolhouse, Pretoria, where the British officers were first confined as prisoners of war | 101 |
| Barbed-wire prison, Pretoria, where the British officers were confined after their removal from the city | 101 |
| Released British officers in Pretoria after the entry of Lord Roberts | 105 |
| Native East Indian servants of British officers in South Africa | 105 |
| Lieutenant-General N. A. Miles, U. S. A. | 109 |
| General French and staff, South Africa | 113 |
| American officers of the Eighth Infantry en route to the Philippines | 113 |
| General Ian Hamilton in South Africa | 115 |
| Brigadier-General Fitzhugh Lee, United States Army | 118 |
| Major-General J. R. Brooke, United States Army | 118 |
| American officer at Siboney | 121 |
| Boer fighting men watching a British flanking movement during the battle of Pretoria, while building defenses | 128 |
| British soldiers pulling army wagons across a drift | 131 |
| Boer artillerists waiting under shell fire for the British advance | 133 |
| The battle of Pretoria, June 4, 1900; Boer guns in action; British advance along the first range of hills | 137 |
| The unpicturesqueness of modern war. In the range of this photograph of the battle of Diamond Hill the hardest fighting is going on. Twenty cannon and 3,000 rifles are firing, and two regiments are charging; but no more can be seen than is shown above | 145 |
| A difficult kopje; two hundred men are hiding behind the rocks | 145 |
| U. S. Officer providing for feeding the poor | 147 |
| Camp of a transport train in General French’s supply column | 151 |
| A base of supplies at de Aar Junction | 155 |
| An improvised commissariat cart in South Africa | 162 |
| A soldier with three months’ provisions | 169 |
| Major Burnham, the American Chief of Scouts for Lord Roberts | 171 |
| The old and the new military bridge at Modder River | 174 |
| Defense of a line of communication in the Transvaal | 176 |
| Canadian transport at a difficult drift | 181 |
| Cape carts with British officers’ personal luggage; nearly every officer had one of these carts | 182 |
| A British transport train on the veldt | 183 |
| Canadian transport at a difficult drift | 187 |
| The Guards and mounted infantry at Pretoria Station | 191 |
| Armament on an American transport | 194 |
| British soldiers leaving the Sumner after having exchanged uniforms with Americans | 199 |
| American transport Sumner in the harbor at Malta | 205 |
| A British transport taken from the merchant marine | 205 |
| The Eighth United States Infantry going ashore for drill at Malta | 211 |
| Colonel Jocelyn and Captain Croxton, Eighth U. S. Infantry, at Malta | 211 |
| Mr. R. H. Davis in Pretoria | 217 |
| Consul Hay and Vice-Consul Coolidge bidding good-by to Captain Slocum at Pretoria | 222 |
| A. D. T. Messenger James Smith in front of President Krüger’s house, immediately after presenting the message from the American children | 226 |
| The battle of Pretoria: Boers awaiting the British advance under artillery fire | 229 |
| The battle of Pretoria: British naval guns shelling forts | 229 |
| General De la Rey and staff at Pretoria; his nephew, twelve years old, is serving on the staff | 232 |
| Field cornets in Pretoria receiving orders from a general | 233 |
| Boer women bidding good-by to their men off for the front | 235 |
| Russian hospital corps with the Boers: the wounded man is Colonel Blake, formerly U. S. A. | 235 |
| Boers under heavy shell fire, awaiting British advance behind their defenses | 243 |
| Burghers’ horses during the battle of Pretoria | 243 |
| The Boer retreat from Pretoria | 246 |
| One of the Guards at Pretoria | 247 |
| General De la Rey and a group of his burghers while awaiting a British attack | 249 |
| Lord Roberts’s advance bodyguard approaching Pretoria | 251 |
| British guns captured by the Boers | 251 |
| Lord Roberts and staff approaching Pretoria (Lord Kitchener is on the white horse, Lord Roberts is the first leading figure at the right) | 253 |
| Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener with staff entering Pretoria at the railway station, June 5, 1900. The two locomotives on the right, with Boer engineers, were started immediately afterwards in an attempt to escape to the Boer lines | 255 |
| Gordon Highlanders entering Pretoria, June 5, 1900 | 259 |
| Types of the crowd who watched the British entry | 259 |
| Lord Kitchener bidding good-by to the foreign attachés after the capture of Pretoria | 265 |
About This Book
A comparative, eyewitness study of British and American armed forces around 1900 that surveys recruitment, training, uniforms, equipment, officers, tactics, and logistics. Using photographs and campaign reporting from Cuba, the Philippines, and South Africa, the author contrasts recruit drills, battlefield conduct, command styles, and the practicalities of feeding, medical care, rail and sea transport, and supply trains. Detailed chapter accounts of marches, actions, and the entry into Pretoria illustrate how organizational practices, technology, and recent combat experience shaped each army’s effectiveness and adaptations to the demands of modern warfare.