. Review of reviews and world's work. t .cneral JOUBERT AND SOME OF HIS MILITARY ASSOCIATES. leaders who will come out with military renown,rather than the BuUers, Methuens, Gatacres, orWhites. And there are Boer statesmen, too. Disasters ^^^® extreme dismay of England overto the Armies the disaster to Bullers armv at theen and Tugela River was due chiefly to theGatacre. f^gt that it Came as a climax, havingbeen preceded only a few days before by disas-ters of considerable magnitude to the army that 18 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REl^ GENEEAL GATACRE. was endeavorin
. Review of reviews and world's work. t .cneral JOUBERT AND SOME OF HIS MILITARY ASSOCIATES. leaders who will come out with military renown,rather than the BuUers, Methuens, Gatacres, orWhites. And there are Boer statesmen, too. Disasters ^^^® extreme dismay of England overto the Armies the disaster to Bullers armv at theen and Tugela River was due chiefly to theGatacre. f^gt that it Came as a climax, havingbeen preceded only a few days before by disas-ters of considerable magnitude to the army that 18 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REl^ GENEEAL GATACRE. was endeavoring to relieve Kimberley underLord Methuen, and the furtlier humiliation ofthe loss of several regiments in the northernpart of Cape Colony under General Gatacrescommand. The Boeis were becoming veryactive in the upper districts of Cape Colony, andGeneral Gatacre, with about 4,000 troops, wasin command of British interests along the OrangeRiver. On Saturday, December 9, General Gat-acre marched from his camp at Malteno to attacka Boer station at Stormberg, some thirteenmiles distant. His spies had reported to himthat the enemys force was weak and couldbe readily surprised and captured. He marchedforth accordingly, with fine British confidence,straight into the Boer ambush to which he hadbeen invited. He left behind him about VOOmen, nearly all of whom happily were not killed,but taken prisoners. , , .. ., , While Gatacre was thus suffering in LoVQ in6zni46tl S Defeat at his attempt to keep open the line ofMagersfontein. communication between Lord Methu-ens
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