- Most of this article is based on the journals of James Stevenson-Hamilton and where it is clear that references come from this source, they have not been individually footnoted
- Marwick , A. 1976 . 204 The Nature of History (London
- Carruthers , J. 1987 . Melton Prior: War Artist in Southern Africa, 1895 to 1900 147 Johannesburg
- 1899 . Just three days after war was declared in October, the Boer forces of the Transvaal and Orange Free State invaded the Cape Colony, quickly invested the major towns of Kimberley and Mafeking. An assault on Natal by strong commandos under Commandant-General Piet Joubert at the beginning of November led to the siege of Ladysmith. These sieges combined with the serious British defeats in early December at Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso (‘Black Week’) stunned Britain, because it was clear that victory would not easily be won
- 1895. . Journal entry, 26 Jan.
- Yardley , J. W. 1904 . With the Inniskilling Dragoons during the Boer War, 1899–1902 4 London etc.
- Ibid., 2
- Ibid.
- For military' details, see L.S. Amery, ed., The Times History of the War in South Africa, 1899–1902, 7 vols (London, 1900–1909);F. Maurice et al, comps, History of the War in South Africa, 1899–1902, 8 vols (London, 1906–1910);T. Pakenham, The Boer War (Johannesburg, 1979)
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 1–2
- Amery . Times History vol. 3, pp. 127–8
- Conan Doyle , A. 1900 . The Great Boer War 239 London
- March Phillips , L. 1902 . With Rimington 2 – 3 . London
- Amery . Times History vol. 3, p. 460;R.L. Wallace, The Australians at the Boer War (Canberra, 1976), 108
- See Amery, Times History, vol. 3, pp. 466–71
- Doyle , Conan . 1905 . Boer War 116 – 19 . 242, see also Wallace, Australians at the Boer War, 103 and passim, and J. Button, Tasmanians in the Transvaal War (Hobart
- 1974 . 63 Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell, Allenby: Soldier and Statesman (London
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 30
- Amery . Times History vol. 3, pp. 487–8
- Spies , S. B. 1977 . Methods of Barbarism? Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics, January 1900— May 1902 42 Cape Town
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons, 60–1
- Spiers , E. M. 1992 . The Late Victorian Army, 1868–1902 318 – 19 . Manchester
- See Pakenham, Boer War, 425;Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 82–3
- Pakenham calls this one of the most serious strategic mistakes of Roberts's career: Pakenham, Boer War, 428
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 85
- McKenzie , J. M . 1992 . Popular Imperialism and the Military, 1850–1950 Manchester
- Wavell . Allenby 74
- Australian war correspondent and poet A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, quoted in Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 113
- Spiers . Late Victorian Army 317
- Spiers . 1900. . Late Victorian Army 316. Stevenson-Hamilton referred to Hart as a ‘terrible old fossil’ in his journal entry of 19 November
- Wavell, Allenby, 40–1, 78–9
- Amery . Times History vol. 4, p. 407;Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 136
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 137–9
- Pakenham . Boer War 454
- The official regimental history does not apportion blame for Meek's death; see Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 161–2
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 161
- Ibid., 167–8
- Ibid., 165
- Wavell . Allenby 76–7
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 163
- Pearse , H. H. 1903 . The History of Lumsden's Horse London (337, 345
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 197;J.P. Brits, ed., Diary of a National Scout: P.J. du Toit, 1900–1902 (Pretoria, 1974). Du Toit was with Allenby at this period of the war
- Maurice . et al, Official History, vol. 3, pp. 427–8
- Wavell . Allenby 77
- Ibid., 78;Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 202–6
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 209
- Amery . Times History vol. 5, pp. 158–79, and ch. 6;Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 236–7
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons 236-7
- Ibid., 239–41
- Ibid., ch. 19;Amery, Times History, vol. 5, pp. 204–16
- Yardley . Inniskilling Dragoons ch. 20
- Ibid., 267
- ‘Of course the trial failed as being illegal,’ Stevenson-Hamilton noted later
- Grundlingh , A. M. 1977 . Die Hensoppers en Joiners: Die Rasionaal en Verskynsel van Verraad Pretoria See
- 1901 . Stevenson-Hamilton noted on 24 November that it was‘[n] ot a good thing perhaps to be using surrendered Boers for fighting purposes. A man who will fight against his country is a “contemptible beast”. Traitor to one side, probably to do the same to the other as well.’
- Yardley, Inniskilling Dragoons, 256
- Ibid., 316
- Ibid., 323–4
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