Here at last was a reputation so well founded that even South African warfare could only confirm and increase it.

A single master hand had in an instant turned England's night to day, and had brought us out of that nightmare of miscalculation and disaster which had weighed so long upon our spirits.

His was the master hand, but there were others at his side without whom that hand might have been paralysed: Kitchener the organiser, French the cavalry leader--to these two men, second only to their chief, are the results of the operations due.

Henderson, the most capable head of Intelligence, and Richardson, who under all difficulties fed the army, may each claim his share in the success..