But it is only just to Lord Roberts's predecessors in command to say that it is easy to do things with three cavalry brigades which it is difficult to do with two regiments.

The ultimate blame does not rest with the man who failed with the two regiments, but with those who gave him inadequate means for the work which he had to do.

And in this estimate of means our military authorities, our politicians, and our public were all in the first instance equally mistaken.
Lord Roberts's plan was absolutely simple, and yet, had it been carried out as conceived, absolutely effective.

It was not his intention to go near any of that entanglement of ditch and wire which had been so carefully erected for his undoing.

The weaker party, if it be wise, atones for its weakness by entrenchments.