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Updated: May 11, 2025

His disengagement from Lord Roberts removed for the time a potential cause of failure, namely, the uncertainty, to which perhaps the escape of De Wet at Poplar Grove may be due, whether a battle was to be fought with the Commander-in-Chiefs rapier or with the Chief-of-the-Staff's bludgeon.

- A Handbook of the Boer War : With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans