The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-29

Following Is statement Oh 'nc "a
forces nm the Tugela under Generals bui
Ie- and Clery before the recent battie'
MOUNTED MEN.
r,ra, ROYAL ragoons-Lieutenant Colo
mel Burn Murdoch.
Twelfth Royal Lancers - Lieutenan'
| Colonel the Earl OF Airlie.
| Thjrteenth ACKNOWLEDGMENT colonel
Blagroyc ca,ona,
Mounted Observation-Disclosures Colonel
| Thofneycrolt.
Rhodlslan Horse Zone SQUADRON.
| Bethunes Horse-Lieutenant Coionei
! Bethune. Sixteenth Lancers
! South African Horse-Lieutenant Colo
| mel Hon. J. Byng -four squadrons).
| Natal Carblneers.
Umyot Mounted Rifles.
Corps of scouts (raised in NataD.
ARTILLERY.
seventh Fourteenth and Sixty-sixth
Batteries. r. F. A.-Lieutenant Ooionei
Hunt.
Twenty third and sixty-fourth Batteries,
r. f. A.-Meutenant Colonel Parsons.
Thu Slxty-thlrd battery belonging to
this brigade division was wrecked at ST.
Helena Bay on December 3.
A battery Natal artillery.
A naval brigade with Q. F. guns.
INFANTRY.
Second English brigade, first division
Major General Hilyard.
Fourth Light infantry brigade, second
division--Major General Lyttelton
Fifth Irish brlgade), third division
Major General Halt Qess Royal Irish Ri
fles with Sir William Gatacre).
Sixth (Fusileers)) brigade, third diyi-
sion-Mejor General Barton.
ADDITIONAL. NOT BRIGADED.
Second Somersetshire Light Infantry.
First Border regiment.
Second Royal Dublin Fusileers (only a
portcn).
Durham Light infantry volunteers OF
NataD.
With the usual portion Of
Royal engineers.
Ammunition columns.
Supply columns
Bearer companies.
Field hospitals
All told. the available force may be
put down as $4,000 OF all ranks, with Tin
Guiding guns with the naval brigade)
forty eight guns.
Widely dscrepant estimates of the num-
Der of forces in the different divisions of
the British army in South Africa will be
when the causes of this dis
crepancy are brought to light. Sometimes
1t is said that the available forces num-
Der 10000 and sometimes their number Is
placed at $4,000. These varying sets OF
figures are both right. But they refer to
the varying states or Conditions" OF
the army or of its divisions. The fu
strength of the British army corps is So
259 officers and men. OF these, howe e.,
large numbers are technical" forces ard
are not available for fighting. Lsaving
nese out of account, the strength o. a
ivision in infantry, cavalry and artillery
IS 9,499 men, with eighteen guns, and OF
'orps SO,799 men, with 102 guns. But as
soon as these take to the field the num-
Der available for battle is again reduced.
When an army is lighting 1t is compellei
o make detachments to guard the line
N communications, to watch the camp or
o serve as depots at the base The
trergth of these detachments varies with
he length of the line. Methuen, for ex-
nipple. has 10000 mon under him. but
10000 Of these are scattered be-
ween the Modder River and De Aar June
ION leaving him only 10000 for actual
ghting. Thus so per cent of the effective
orce can rot be used for battle.
Theodore Roosevelt's example of rough
lding has had a pronounced effect on the
British nobility. Arlstocrats are e,bow-
ng one another to go out and fight the
,oers. Never since the days celebrated nv
he Holinshed chronicles have SO many
obles taken the field. Among the rough
lders who Will try to storm hills In South