Maps & illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preamble
Distant thunder, rumours of rain? Portents of strife
Confronted with conflict; Colesberg annexed
Colesberg environs: the ebb and flow of battle
The battle of Suffolk Hill
'Cannon' on Coleskop, enter De la Rey
French departs, De la Rey makes his move
The turn of the tide: The Khakis in Colesberg
Trials and tribulations: Colesberg under Roberts
Commandos around Colesberg: Kitchener's ruthless response
The amaBhulu versus the amaNgesi: but not a 'white man's war' (and certainly not 'a gentleman's war')
Another year beginning and the beginning of the end
Conclusion
Addenda
Bibliography.