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REFERENCE NOTES ABBREVIATIONS A H D Aylmer Haldane, diary, Haldane papers CAC Churchill Archives Centre D M P WSC's dispatches to the Morning Post. Dated as printed in London to Lady smith and Ian Hamilton^ March EL Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life NAR National Archives Repository, Pretoria RSC Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. I: Youth W S C Winston Spencer Churchill ONE: Gateway 2 'He was my' RSC, p.283 2 'endless forests' EL, p.89 3 'a mere social' Sandys, From Winston with Love and Kisses, p.182 3 'to scenes o f CAC 4 'the desire for' EL, p.118 4 'She is the' CAC 5 'I should advise' CAC 5 'When I think' CAC 6 'I rode forward' CAC 6 'I have faith' CAC 6 'I rode my' CAC 6 'Bullets are not' CAC 6 'We were to' EL, p. 158 7 'I saw the' ibid. 7 'in our path' ibid., p. 189 7 'like a race' ibid., p. 190 7 Battle of Omdurman: ibid., p.201 8 'Had the army' CAC TWO: Preparingfor War 9 'Please understand' History of the English Speaking Peoples Vol IV, p.296 10 'Our Account with' RSC, p.499 n 'a practical political' EL, p.240 11 'He is a' ibid. 12 'able to write' ibid., p.241 12 'inhuman slaughter' CAC 12 'passed from hand' Churchill, The River War, Vol. II, p.212 12 'a bit o f EL, p.241 13 'Harmsworth telegraphed me' CAC 13 Boer War correspondents: Read, The Power of News, p. 106 14 'most happy to' CAC 14 'He would have' EL, p. 244 15 'I fear the' CAC 15 'It is definitely . ..' CAC 16 'About the Cinematograph' CAC 16 'My dear Winston' CAC 16 'a very clever' Manchester, The Last Lion, p.242 16 Randolph Payne & Sons: CAC 17 'I saw Winston' CAC 18 'I send you' CAC 18 'I see no earthly' Halle, The Irrepressible Churchill, p.29 18 'I see the American' CAC 18 'Dear Sandys' collection of Steve Forbes, New York 2 1 7 Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive THREE: Cruising to a Catastrophe 21 'Redvers Buller has' Black and White Budget, 30 December 1899 2 2 'acquired no reverence' Incidents and Reflections, Atkins, p. 122 22 'We have had' CAC 23 'Buller was a' EL, p.247 24 'I am very' CAC 24 'What an odious' DMP, 26 October 1899 25 'This morning we' DMP, 29 October 1899 26 'It looks as' EL, p.2 50 26 'I dare say' ibid. 27 'It is a long' and subsequent WSC quotations, DMP, 1 November 1899 29 'a cat' CAC 29 'I write you' CAC 30 'misgivings were dispelled' EL, p.254 FOUR: The Station Yard 33 'They have never' DMP, 6 November 1899 34 'quite ready to' Menpes, War Impressions, pp. 124-7 35 'Go to hell' Hurst, Winston Churchill: War Correspondent South African War, p.46 36 'He wanted to' Estcourt Gazette, 14 December 1940 36 'Mark my words' Derek Clegg to the author 36 'We had found' Chaplin, Winston Churchill and Harrow, p.66 37 'How many more' DMP, 9 November 1899 38 'We soon reached' ibid. 39 7 did that' Atkins, Incidents and Reflections, p. 127 39 'bought the ground' DMP, 10 November 1899 39 'the State may' CAC 41 'It is a great' Magnus, Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, p. 2 87 41 'When I left' Churchill, The World Crisis (abridged edition 1931), p. 140 42 'a lonely, young' Stevenson, 'Correspondence with Colonel W. Park Gray', unpublished manuscript 42 Norgate: Liz Burrow (greatgranddaughter ), letter to the author FIVE: Knight Errant 45 'Wilson's death trap' DMP, 20 November 1899 46 'We started at' ibid. 46 'I do not' Haldane, A Soldier's Saga, p.142 46 WSC's admission: WSC, conversation with Major-General Hilyard, quoted in Pakenham, The Boer War, p.2 78 47 'As the train' DMP, 20 November 1899 47 'Keep cool' Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith, p. 75 47 'The Boers held' DMP, 20 November 1899 48 'quick witted and' Haldane, A Soldier's Saga 143 48 'Mr Winston Churchill' CAC 50 'A very brave' Martin, The Durban Light Infantry, p. 73 50 'All the time' Contemporary Review, December 1901, p.872 50 'I have had' DMP, 20 November 1899 50 Botha and artillery: Martin, The Durban Light Infantry, p. 73 51 'The Boers maintained' CAC 51 'There was a' DMP, 20 November 1899 52 'As many wounded' ibid. 52...

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