xix+462pp. Original Black Covers with Red contrasting Spine with Gilt Titles. Portrait Frontis. Profusely Illustrated with Sepia Tone Reproductions of Original Photographs & with A Portfolio of Folding Coloured Maps at end of each Chapter. Rear Envelope Containing 8 Folded Sketches by French.
Covers very lightly rubbed with small tear at top of spine. Ex Libris paste-down to front EP. Some foxing to EPS and frontis Otherwise a Very Good Copy.
An account of French's cavalry operations excluding the campaign in Natal. Chapters relate to Colesberg operations; the relief of Kimberley; operations to the fall of Bloemfontein and Pretoria and the campaign in eastern Transvaal to November 1900. The narrative is preceded by an informative introduction relating events to the investment of Ladysmith. Among the appendices are observations on cavalry notes on reconnaissance, on transport and remounts in war.
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