Welsh Journals

7. Times History of the War in South Africa, iv, ed. Basil Williams (1906), 511. 8. Denbs. Yeom., 201. 9. Meyrick, 1/12/05. 10. Monts. Yeom., 59-60. 11. Denbs. Yeom., 203. 12. Monts. Yeom., 64. 13. Denbs. Yeom., 210. 14. Meyrick, 8/12/05. 15. Times History of the War in South Africa 1900- 1902, v, ed. Erskine Childers (1907), 151: a far more critical account than the 'Official History', Sir J.F. Maurice, History of the War in South Africa. 16. Meyrick, 8/12/05. 17. Monts. Yeom., 64. 18. See Map, Times Hist., iv, 269. 19. Meyrick, 8/12/05. 20. Denbs. Yeom., 210. 21. Ibid., Meyrick, 8/12/05. 22. Meyrick, 8/12/05. 23. Ibid., Times Hist., v, 6. 24. Denbs. Yeom., 211. 25. Times Hist., v, 25. 26. Ibid. 27. Meyrick, 8/12/05. 28. Ibid., Times Hist., v, 25; Denbs. Yeom., 211; Monts. Yeom., 67. 29. Times Hist., v, 85-6. 30. B. Farwell, The Great Boer War (1977), 312-14. 31. Meyrick, 8/12/05. 32. Ibid., Denbs. Yeom., 212. 33. Meyrick, 8/12/05; Denbs. Yeom., 212-3; Monts. Yeom., 67 identifies the scene of action as Quagga Laagte. 34. Times Hist., v, 28. 35. The First De Wet Hunt was in July-August 1900, after he had slipped out of encirclement in the Brandwater Basin. In those two months he perfected his arts of delaying pursuit and baffling it by making diversions and by sudden changes of direction. 36. Times Hist., v, 27. 37. Ibid., 33-4. 38. Ibid., 35. 39. Ibid., 36-8. 40. Ibid., 38 note. 41. Ibid., 41-2; Meyrick, 8/12/05; Denbs. Yeom., 213. The ever conservative British cavalry ignored, if they knew of it, the experience in the American Civil War of the Union cavalry, who proved that the best close-quarter weapon was the .45 Colt revolver.