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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
B July 1, 1908 
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The Late General Buller. 
A Tribute to the Memory of the late 
General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C., 
etc., etc., by Sergeant-Major Richard 
J. A. Douerty, Royal Horse Artil- 
lery Representative of this Journal. 
In the month of December, 1899, I 
arrived at Frere, one of the advanced 
positions of the British forces in Natal, 
under the command of General Sir R. 
Buller, After a short while the forces 
forming the Ladysmith relief columns 
advanced on Chievely, about six miles 
from Frere and afew miles from the Boer 
positions at Colenso. 
On the morning of the 15th December 
we advanced on Colenso, opening a heavy 
- fire on the Boer positions. We bombarded 
every place that looked like entrench- 
ments for two hours. After this time the 
‘infantry advanced, line after line, and 
extended widely. Instantly Mauser and 
heavy gun firecommenced operaqing from 
the Tugela heights and the fort on our 
right flank. Here Buller, with fine courage, 
struggled to fight his way to the relief of | 
the besieged town. At Colenso we lost 
1,200 officers and men and 11 guns, which 
was no fault of Buller’s. On January 16 
he commenced the movement which ‘re- 
sulted in the capture of Spion Kop, a 
mountain crest over 7,000 feet high, won 
at a cost of 1,700 men. On February 8 
Buller advanced once more, crossing the 
“Tugela at Molen’s Drift, and carrying 
Val Krantz gallantly with the bayonet, 
atterwards retiring across the Tugela. 
During those movements the fighting, 
valour and endurance of our soldiers 
were not exceeded by anything recorded 
in British military history. February 14 
preparations to attack Mount Inhlave, 
which was captured, also Monte Cristo, 
and so contending for every part ef the 
way. _ 
With the capture of Pietea’s Hill the 
strength of the Boer defence was shat- 
tered; and on February 28 Lord Dun- 
donald, with the advance guard of Buller’s 
cavalry, rode into the town of Ladysmith. 
From the hills the British cavalry came 
at speed just when the sun was setting. 
As they advanced the stern challenge of 
the outpost was heard, ‘ Who comes there?’ 
‘The relieving army,’ was the reply, and ~ 
thus came the end of the siege of Lady- 
smith. 
It is ungenerous to dwell on the tem- 
porary failure in tactics of General Buller, | 
when we know he recovered fame by the 
skill, coolness and persistency of his efforts 
to relisve Ladysmith. But the plain truth 
was that the new weapons with which 
modern science had armed the soldier 
demanded new tactics. 
has been talked about the disparity of 
the British Empire and the two Dutch 
Republics. It must be remembered the 
strength of each combatant should be 
measured by the troops actually on the 
field of conflict. 
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