In loving memory of Elizabeth Blinkhorn Corvi
First published in Great Britain in 2009 by
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List of Maps
1. Plan of the battles of Tel-el-Kebir and Kassassin, 1882. (From Sir Evelyn Wood, British Battles on Land and Sea , London: Cassell & Co., 1915)
2. Plan of the battle of Khambula, 1879. (From Sir Evelyn Wood, British Battles on Land and Sea , London: Cassell & Co., 1915)
3. Plan of the battle of Colenso, 1899. (From W Baring Pemberton, Battles of the Boer War , London: Batsford, 1964)
4. Plan of the battle of Majuba, 27 February 1881.
5. Plan of the battles of Laings Nek, Schuinshootge and Majuba, 1881.
6. Plan of the Isandlwana campaign, 1879. (With permission of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)
7. Map to illustrate General Gordons Journals. (From A Egmont Hake, The Journals of Major-General C G Gordon CB, at Khartoum , London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885)
8. Khartoum and environs.
9. Plan of the north-west frontier and Afghanistan. (From G Forrest, The Life of Lord Roberts, KG, VC , London: Cassell & Co., 1914)
10. Plan of the battle of Paardeberg, 1900. (From David James, Lord Roberts , London: Hollis & Carter, 1954)
11. Plan of the north-west frontier of India. (From David James, Lord Roberts , London: Hollis & Carter, 1954)
12. The South African War, 18991902.
13. The battle of Omdurman, phase one, 2 September 1898.
14. The battle of Omdurman, phase two, 2 September 1898.
15. The battle of Omdurman, phase three, 2 September 1898.
List of Plates
1. Garnet Wolseley. (Taylor Library)
2. Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood. (Library of Congress)
3. Redvers Buller. (Taylor Library)
4. Charles Gordon. (Taylor Library)
5. George Colley. (The Royal Collection HM Queen Elizabeth II)
6. Caricature of Lord Chelmsford. (Private collection)
7. Lord Chelmsford. (Private collection of Kim Thesiger, 4th Viscount .. Chelmsford)
8. Frederick Roberts, General the Hon. Sir Arthur Hardinge and General Sir Donald Stewart. (Taylor Library)
9. Frederick Roberts. (Library of Congress)
10. Herbert Kitchener. (Taylor Library)
11. Herbert Kitchener. (The National Army Museum)
Acknowledgements
Quotations from the Royal Archives appear by gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen. Quotations from Crown copyright material in The National Archives appear by permission of Her Majestys Stationery Office. The editors and authors also give their thanks to the following for allowing them to consult and quote from archives in their possession and/or copyright: The Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Kings College, London; The Trustees of the British Library Board; The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum; The National Army Museum; The Royal Pavilion Libraries and Museums (Hove Reference Library); The National Library of Scotland; The Sudan Archive of the University of Durham; The Killie Campbell Library of the University of KwaZulu-Natal; The KwaZulu-Natal Archives; South Lanarkshire Council Museum; and The William Perkins Library of the University of Durham, North Carolina.
List of Contributors
Professor Ian Beckett was formerly Professor of History at the University of Northampton. He is Chairman of the Army Records Society. His publications include The Victorians at War (2003) and the forthcoming Wolseley and Ashanti: The Asante War Journal and Correspondence of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, 187374 for the Army Records Society.
Dr Steven Corvi is Assistant Professor at the American Military University and is Northeast Chairman for Military History in the Popular Culture Association. His PhD was on Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien and he has contributed an article on the Royal Army Veterinary Corps to JSAHR . He has previously co-edited Haigs Generals (2006) with Ian Beckett.
Gerald H Herman is Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University, Boston. His publications include The Pivotal Conflict: Comprehensive Chronology of the First World War (1992) and a multi-media exploration of that wars cultural impacts called World War I: the Destroying Fathers Confirmed . He also co-edited The Media, the Academy and the Law: Assessing the Truth from the Protocols of Zion to Holocaust Denial (2005).
Professor John Laband is Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, and an Associate of the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies. His many publications include The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War (2005), Lord Chelmsfords Zululand Campaign, 187879 (1994), The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation (1997) and Kingdom in Crisis: The Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879 (1992).
Dr Stephen Manning is a visiting Professor of History at the University of Exeter, where he occasionally lectures on colonial warfare. He is the author of Evelyn Wood VC: Pillar of Empire (2007) and the forthcoming Soldiers of the Queen .
Dr Stephen Miller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maine. His publications include Volunteers on the Veld: Britains Citizen Soldiers and the South African War (2007) and Lord Methuen and the British Army (1999). He is the editor of the forthcoming Soldiers and Settlers in South Africa, 1850-1918 and is now working on discipline and punishment in the late Victorian army.
Dr Keith Surridge teaches on various American university programmes in London. His publications include Managing the South African War, 18991902: Politicians versus Generals (1998) and (with Denis Judd) The Boer War (2002). He has also contributed articles on Kitchener and on the South African War to academic journals.
