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The Great Boer War

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			=== Preface to the Enlarged Edition (1901) ===

			A year has elapsed since the publication of the "Great Boer War." The narrative then ended at the occupation of Komatipoort and the dispersal of the main Boer army. I have contented myself since then by adding to the various reprints of the book such fresh details as could be collected concerning the operations there described. There is hardly a page which has not been worked over, and many of the additions are very essential. In the meantime I endeavoured to keep myself informed upon the guerilla warfare still proceeding, but forebore from adding fresh chapters, feeling that to do so would give a scrappy character to the work, I waited for the end of the war or for some well-marked term which would justify me in bringing the narrative up to date. This seems to be afforded by the day which marks the conclusion of the second year of the war, and it is to that point, October 11th, that this chronicle now extends.

			The difficulty of obtaining accurate information concerning the last stages of the war bas been very great. The number of correspondents has diminished, while the stringency of the Censor has increased. I have had the opportunity, however, of perusing and collating a large number of letters and diaries of officers who have bean engaged in the various operations, and these Private springs of information have atoned to some extent for the drying-up of the public and official sources. So copious and interesting have these documents been that I might have considerably expanded the narrative, but some proportion in treatment must be Observed between the battles of 1899 and the skirmishes of 1901.

			My private informants are as numerous that it would be hardly possible, even if it were always desirable, that I should quote their names. Of the Correspondents whose work I have drawn upon for my materials I would acknowledge my obligations to Messrs. Burleigh, Nevinson, Battersby, Stuart, Amery, Atkins, Baillie, Kinneir, Churchill, James, Ralph, Barnes, Maxwell, Pearce, and others. In mentioning the names of these gentlemen, who have so often furnished not only the raw materials of history, but history itself, I make tardy reparation for an omission in the Preface of my original volume.

			: A. CONAN DOYLE.
			: Undershaw; October 19th, 1901.

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