Sir Charles Warren and Spion Kop : a vindication

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. r '^yijAei jiyLv^ce 91 \^ Codt i^^^/^^' WAEEENCHAELESSIK AND KOPSHON From a photograph byA . Bassaiio SIE CHAELES WAEEEN AND SPION KOP A VINDICATION BY 'DEFENDER' SKETCH, PORTRAITWITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND MAP LONDON PLACE15 WATERLOOSMITH, ELDER, & CO., 1902 [All rights reserved] Annex 475501? PREFACE It is now more than two years since the opera- tion took place on the Tugela Eiver in Natal, that ended in the capture and the unwarrantable abandonment the same day of the position of The lapse of time since these eventsSpion Kop. naturally caused a loss of interestoccurred in history of the war in Souththis chapter of the publicationAfrica; but the recent of portions of 'the despatches omitted in the Gazette ' of 1900, and also of other documents received at the time by the War Office but not disclosed, has again brought the subject into prominence, revived public interest in it, and offered an opportunity which we gladly seize to vindicate the conduct of an officerwho beencondemnedwithoutbeinghas heard. Charles Warren will be allowedWhether Sir any opportunity of defending himself against VI PKEFACE the strictures passed upon him by Sir Kedvers Buller, either now or when the war is over, is doubtful ; but at length, having before us all the documents received at the War Office, it is proposed to show in the following pages that, in spite of the difficult circumstances in which he found himself.

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KOPSHONFrom a photograph byA . Bassaiio