forces of tho enemy retiring from nor by the capture of Cronje and his laager at Koodoosrand, but by the additional losses they have since experienced in having to abandon the siege of Ladysmith, and what is yet of greater loss to the Afri kanders* cause, to wit, the support of the thousands -of Dutch colonists who were al most persuaded to throw in their lot with the Republics. It was to the Dutch coloniits tliat Kruger looked for recruits for his armies to continue the struggle against the ever constant stream of British reinforce ment*. ■ - It is probable that fighting against an enemy of trained European soldiers, com manded by competent officers, versed in the tactics of the modern military schools of Europe, Lord Roberts would have proved quite as. successful as_ he did against Cronje, and De" la Rey, and through them against Joubert, but Lord Roberts would have hesitated to make such an advance as ho made acrc«s the _•»*! der if he were fighting the same numUer of troops similarly placed, if they were com xot-oded by officers trained en the military schools of India, where an officer learns to become an opjiortunist in all that relates to tactics. He learns to leave the hard-and fast line*-, of the strategist to his brother of th* European mdlltary school, while he moves on lines that may at time* be very I hazardous, yet often by their riskiness are all the more sure of being successful. To I Lord Clive and .his successors, and the ex-1 amples they set in days of yore, when fight* I ing agjainst great odds in the conquest of India, may be given the credit of starting what has now beconwt a well-recognised and separate .school of military thought, as dis tinguished from that of the European system that is of distinctive German origin, aa J ap prwed by that uTeat tact'eian and strategist. General Count Yon* Moltke, but the lessons that the Indian school have learned bnve proved of .immense value to other than Bri-! tish Indian officers and armies. During the war between the Northern and Southern States of America tlie American officers took many a lesson from the experiences of the! Indian military school. 