Editing Redvers Buller (section)

==Legacy==
Historian [[Richard Holmes (military historian)|Richard Holmes]] (1946&ndash;2011) commented that Buller has gone down as "one of the bad jokes of Victorian military history", and quotes a famous verdict that he was "an admirable captain, an adequate major, a barely satisfactory colonel and a disastrous general". [[Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher|Viscount Esher]] called him "a gallant fellow but no strategist".<ref>{{harvnb|Holmes|2004|p=39}}</ref> [[Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley|Wolseley]] praised his "stern determination of character". At least one recent historian has been kinder to his reputation:

{{blockquote|Buller's achievements have been obscured by his mistakes. In 1909, a French military critic, General Langlois, pointed out that it was Buller, not Roberts, who had the toughest job of the war – and it was Buller who was the innovator in countering Boer tactics. The proper use of cover, of infantry advancing in rushes, co-ordinated in turn with creeping barrages of artillery: these were the tactics of truly modern war, first evolved by Buller in Natal.|author=[[Thomas Pakenham (historian)|Thomas Pakenham]]{{sfn|Pakenham|1979|p=485}}}}