. South Africa and the Transvaal War. Assistant Adjutant- CaptaGeneral Hon. H. A. Law-rence, , 17th Lancers. ist - - - Col. (local Major-General) J. M. - - - Lieutenant F. W. Wormald, 7th - - - Captain C. J. Briggs, ist Dragoon Commanding Mounted Major and Brevet - * Colonel E. A H Alder- son, , Royal WestKent , Mounted In- Captain H. MMicking,fantry** Royal Scots. 2nd - - - Colonel (local Major - Gen.)J J. P. Brabazon, , - - - Maj
. South Africa and the Transvaal War. Assistant Adjutant- CaptaGeneral Hon. H. A. Law-rence, , 17th Lancers. ist - - - Col. (local Major-General) J. M. - - - Lieutenant F. W. Wormald, 7th - - - Captain C. J. Briggs, ist Dragoon Commanding Mounted Major and Brevet - * Colonel E. A H Alder- son, , Royal WestKent , Mounted In- Captain H. MMicking,fantry** Royal Scots. 2nd - - - Colonel (local Major - Gen.)J J. P. Brabazon, , - - - Major Hon. C. E. Bingham, ist Life - - - Captain Hon. T. W. Brand, 10th Commanding Mounted Captain and * Colonel R. J. Tudway, 2nd Bn. Essex Mounted Infantry** Captain H. L. Ruck-Keene,J Oxford. Light Infantry. * Graded as Assistant Adjutant-General,t Will act for both Brigades.** Graded as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General. Coleridge Grove, October SOUTH AFRICA AND THETRANSVAAL WAR CHAPTER I THE CRISIS AT HOME Patience, long sick to death, is dead. Too longHave sloth and doubt and treason bidden us beWhat Cromwells England was not, when the seaTo him bore witness, given of Blake, how strongShe stood, a commonweal that brooked no wrongFrom foes less vile than men like wolves set free,Whose war is waged where none may fight or flee—With wflmen and with weanlings. Speech and songLack utterance now for loathing. Scarce we hearFoul tongues, that blacken Gods dishonoured nameWith prayers turned curses and with praise found shame,Defy the truth whose witness now draws nearTo scourge these dogs, agape with jaws afoam,Down out of life. Strike, England, and strike home. —Algernon Charles Swinburne. IN the face of the insolent Ultimatum which had been addressedto Great Britain by the South African Republic, the nationclosed its ranks and relegated party controversy to a moreappropriate season. The
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