Excerpt from With Lord Methuen in South Africa, February 1990 to June 1901: Being Some Notes on the War, With Extracts From Letters and DiariesThe South African War was declared in October, 1899. When I was a student of medicine in Edinburgh.The reverses which followed in the last three months of the year determined the Government to call out the Reserves, and invite the services of Volunteers, both horse and foot.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.