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Timeline
1899
Oct 7th Mobilization of British Army
10th Boer Ultimatum
12th Boers Invade Natal and Cape Colony
14th Boers Besiege Mafeking and Kimberley
20th Battle of Talana Hill
21st Battle of Elandslaagte Station
23rd Battle of Dundee
30th Battle and Siege of Ladysmith
31st Buller arrives in Cape Town with Army Corps
Nov Churchill captured
22nd Buller leaves for Natal
Suggested Reading
The Times History of War in South Africa
Amery, L. London, 1900-9

The Relief of Ladysmith
Atkins, J. London, 1900

The Anglo-Boer Wars: The British and the Afrikaners 1815 - 1902
Barthorp, M. Poole, 1987

The Boer War
Belfield, E. London, 1975

The Natal Campaign
Burleigh, B. London, 1900

Ladysmith
Chisholm, R. London, 1979

Ian Hamilton's March
Churchill, W. London, 1900

African Portraits
Cloete, S.London, 1946

The Great Boer War
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur London, 1902

Cassell's History of the Boer War
Danes, R. London, 1901

Three Years War The Great Boer War
Farwell, B. London, 1977

Queen Victoria's Enemies: An A-Z of British Colonial Warfare
Featherstone, D. London, 1989

Mafeking, A Victorian Legend
Gardner, B. London, 1966

The Lion's Cage
Gardner, B. 1969

With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa
Goldman, C. S. London, 1902

Thank God we kept the Flag flying: the Siege and Relief of Ladysmith, 1899 - 1900
Griffiths, K. London, 1974

Baden-Powell at Mafeking
Grinnell-Milne, D. London, 1957

South African War Books
Hackett, R. G. London, 1994

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa, 1899 - 1900: Letters from the Front
Hales, A. G. London, 1900

Uniforms Illustrated: The Boer War
Haythornthwaite, P. J. London, 1987

The Boer States: Land and People
Keane, A. H. London, 1900

Queen Victoria's Enemies: Southern Africa
Knight, I. London, 1989

Goodbye Dolly Gray
Kruger, R. London, 1959

To the Bitter End
Lee, E. London, 1985

The Story of the War in South Africa, 1899 - 1902
Mahan, A. T. London, 1900

History of the War in South Africa
Maurice, F and Grant, M. H. London, 1906 - 1910

French's Cavalry Campaign
Maydon, J London, 1901

Stormberg, a Lost Opportunity
Meintjes, J. Cape Town, 1969

The Anglo Boer War
Meintjes, J. Cape Town, 1976

War Impressions
Menpes, M. London, 1901

Boer War Memorabilia: the Collector's Guide
Oosthuizen, P London, 1987

The Boer War
Pakenham, T. London, 1979

Battles of the Boer War
Pemberton, W. B. London, 1964

The Anglo-Boer Wars
Pretorius, E. J. Cape Town, 1985

The Battle of Spion Kop
Ransford, O.London, 1969

Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer
Reitz, D. London, 1933

The Siege of Ladysmith
Sharp, G. London, 1976

Monuments and Battlefields of the Transvaal War 1881 and the South African War 1899
Smail, J. L. Cape Town, 1967

From Cape Town to Ladysmith: an Unfinished Record of the South African War
Steevens, G. Edinburgh, 1900

The Colonials in South Africa, 1899 - 1902
Stirling, J. London, 1907

J. Buller's Campaign
Symons, J. London, 1963

Military History of Perthshire
Tullibardine and Macdonald, J. C. C. Perth, 1908

The South African War: The Anglo Boer War, 1899 - 1902
Warwick, P (Ed) London, 1980

After Pretoria, the Guerilla War
Wilson, H. W. London, 1902

With the Flag to Pretoria
Wilson, H. W. London, 1900/1


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