Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-01
-ossSs IN ARc&N VAR
BRITISH LOSE 22,bOO AND THE BOERS
10000.
Chronological Review of the Main
Events of the Great
Struggle.

| logical review of the principal incidents OF
the struggle:
British Official and estimated), killed,
| wounded and prisoners, 22,5OO; Beers Gun
| off'ciaD, killed, wounded and prisoners,
10000.
October II, 1S99-War declared by the
Boer republic. Kruger's troops occupy
British territory.
October 12-First engagement of the war.
Beers wreck a British armored train at
Kraai Pan capturing Lieut.. Nesbit, fifteen
men and two guns.
October 14-15-Boers invest Mafeklng ana
Kimberley.
October 2O-Battle of Dundee. British
| loss, 226; Boer loss, 500 British won, but
retired. ,
October 21-Battle of Elandslaagte. Brit
ish loss. 262; Boer loss. 400 killed and
wounded 2O prisoners. British after clear
Ing the field fall back on Ladysnhth.
October 22-Yule ahandons Dundee ana
his wounded there, and falls back on sun
days river.
October 2tWhite engages and disperses
Beers who seek to block Iule's retreat on
Ladysmith at Reitfontien. British LOSSES
11:; Boer loss not known.
October 24-kimberley- garrison engage
enemy at Rivcrton Road station. dlsiodgins
Boer forces and killing Commandment botha;
british loss :, privates killed; 3 officers aLo
Is privateS wounded. 80, j,
October 2G-Yule enters Ladysmith ana
Joins forces with Sir George w Ille
October 30-White makes RECONNAISSANCE
at I.adysmith and retires with loss OF Two
battalons and mountain battery cap'uieu
and $40 casualties. c;
sons also withdrawn from Stromberg ana
other places. , ,,o., Of
Belmont who command his ROAD 10 Mill
berley He disperses them with Known
loss of eighty-one killed, fifty prisoners,
siXty-four wagons burned, aooo rounu'
ammunition and 80 shells blown up piit
ish losses .2Sj.
November 23-Hildyard at Estcourt at
tacks Beers who had interrupted mis- COM
municat!OnS. o-on ,,
aside at Graspan who seek to oppose ms
advance to Kimberley, but In doing SO ne
loses 1913 men, including 1O5 men OF the
Naval Brigade.
Noyember 25-Scott Turner surprises
sleeping Boer pickets and PUSHES enemy
intrenchments, capturing twenty-nlne prls-
oners. His losses were f1Ve killed, twenty
six wounded.
November 2s-Methuen engages Beers at
Modder river, and drives the enemy from
his position in an action described Dy tne
British commander as lone of the hardest
and most trying fights in the annals OF the
British army" British losses were -FOUR
officers killed and nineteen wounded; rank
and file, killed siXty-seven, WOUNDED "i''
missing Z: grand total, 4l6
November 2s-Scott Turner, in another
sortie, captures enemys trenches ana de,
and his men are forced to retire, with loss
of twenty-five killed and thirty-one wound
December 9-1O-Gatacre attempted night
surprise of Boer position at Stromberg, but
failed He Jared as Jared White in a SINH
lar enterprise, and retired win loss oi 0oo
men taken prisoners and two guns. his
other casualties were tWenty-Iour Killed. anu
SiXty-Seven wounded.
December 11.-Methuen attempts sim
liar movement at Magersfontein. The
Highland Brigade is caught While march,
ing in close order, and Methuen's proposed
attack on the enemy'S trenches Is turned
into a repulse, with loss of seventeen OIL
GERS killed and fifty-one wounded, and one
hundred and two rank and file Killed ana
one hundred and forty wounded. Iotal
losses including 1872 missing, 9o3
December 15.-Builer attempted to force
passage of the Tugela at Colenso, put
his guns under Colonel Long. pushing
too far ahead were surprised by the enemy
and were, with the exception OF two, cap
tured. Buffers attack on the left, uhder
Hart, had likewise failed, and ne was COM
PEELED by the less of his artillery to fall
back on Chieveley with a loss of officers
and men and guns of ILL and 16, respect
lively. His casualty list Included offlcerS
and 1871 .'ank and file killed; A officers and
100 rank and file wounded; 10 officers were
taken prisoners, and the missing rank and
file numbered Dos Including 3 officers.
January l. 19U-French forces Beers to
evacuate Colesberg by threatening their
flank.
January 1.-Lieutenant Colonel Pitcher
defeats commando at Sunnyside. thirty
miles northwest Of Belmont. taking the
enemy's laagcr and forty prisoners.
January 6-Colonel Watson of the First
battalion Suffolk Regiment obtains per-
mission to attempt the night capture or
kopje in the vicinity of Rensburg. Total
casualties. 162.
January 6-Boers endeavored to carry
I.adysmith by assault. Fighting lasted all
day and some of the British intrenchments
on Wagon Hill were thrice taken by the
enemy and retaken. British loss was IA
officers killed and % wounded; 131 men
killed and IA wounded.
January S-Buller engages the Beers at
Caesars Camp and wagon Hill. brush
hold positions and Beers retire with honors
about even.
January 1o-Lord Roberts and Lord
Kitchener, sent out from London to take
charge of the situation. which wasS disap-
pointing up to this time. arrive at Cape
Town. Arrangements made for new move
for relief of Ladysmith.
January 16.-British forces prepare to
cross the Tugela. Beers capture patrol
of the New South Wales Lancers near
RenSburg
January 17-1s.-Generals Warren and
Lyttleton cross the Tugela at Potgieter's
Drift General Dundonald engages the
Beers in battle at Acton Homes.
January 2324.-Battle of Spion Kop.
General Warren retires after suffering ter
rible losses.
January 26-27-Troops under General
Farren recross the Tugela river.
February 5.-Buller's force crosses the
Tugela again. Attempt to relieve Lady
smith fails. Vaal KranZ captured.
February G.-Boers attack and turn back
an armored train carrying British troops
from Chieveley to Colenso.
February 12.-General French starts on
his forced march for Kimberley. This is
the turning point in the war. British
forces sent out from England are rapidly
taking the field and Lord Roberts has full
charge of operations.
February 15.-General French relieves
Kimberley after brilliant march with his
cavalry and mounted infantry.
February 16.-General Cronje leads pre-
cipitate Boer retreat, pursued by General
Kelly-Kenny. Great quantities of Boer
supplies captured
February 2O-Boers under Cronje go into
laager near Raardsberg. Lord Roberts
tablished lines of siege and bombards Boer
lager. Forces under Botha trying to re-
lieve Cronje dispersed.
February 27.-Cronje surTenders, with
1850 Beers British troops appalled,
at the frightful condition OF the captured
Boer laager when they enter 1t.
February 2S.-Ladysmith. after 11S days
| of siege, is relieved by General Dundonald
| London goes wild with joy
March General Butler at last enters
| IIadySmith and inSpectS the starving gar