French's Cavalry Campaign

French's Cavalry Campaign with illustrations.

The author in his Preface draws a comparison between the cavalry and the mounted infantry who took part in the campaign, and is of the opinion that the latter will never supersede the former as mounted men.He considers that the cavalry ride better and have a greater knowledge of horses, while they are generally of more value on horseback than mounted infantry, and he maintains that the Boers had a greater dread of the lance than for all our weapons and artillery put together.

The writer went through the whole of French's campaign as war correspondent for the Daily News. He asserts that the Boers abandoned their guns when the British crossed the Modder River, but that our troops were in ignorance of this fact, and none of the residents informed them; later on the enemy quietly removed the artillery while our exhausted men were sleeping, and thus the fruits of the victory were lost to the British.

Original scarlet boards with white lettering to front cover and spine(faded). Pp. xxix, 30-198. Cr. 8vo. 1901.Frontispiece with tissue guard. Missing illustration to pp 62.Ex Libris copy with label to front paste-down Good reading copy.