[The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Boer War CHAPTER 25 5/38
Passing along the widespread British line one would then, after an interval of seven or eight miles, come upon Tucker's Division (the 7th), which consisted of Maxwell's Brigade (formerly Chermside's--the Norfolks, Lincolns, Hampshires, and Scottish Borderers) and Wavell's Brigade (North Staffords, Cheshires, East Lancashires, South Wales Borderers).
To the right of these was Ridley's mounted infantry.
Beyond them, extending over very many miles of country and with considerable spaces between, there came Broadwood's cavalry, Bruce Hamilton's Brigade (Derbyshires, Sussex, Camerons, and C.I.V.), and finally on the extreme right of all Ian Hamilton's force of Highlanders, Canadians, Shropshires, and Cornwalls, with cavalry and mounted infantry, starting forty miles from Lord Roberts, but edging westwards all the way, to merge with the troops next to it, and to occupy Winburg in the way already described.
This was the army, between forty and fifty thousand strong, with which Lord Roberts advanced upon the Transvaal. In the meantime he had anticipated that his mobile and enterprising opponents would work round and strike at our rear.
Ample means had been provided for dealing with any attempt of the kind.
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