I also told him the principle upon which I had conducted it; which was, to tire the enemy.

I tired out and disqualified many battalions, yet never had a casualty myself nor lost a man.

General Grant was not given to paying compliments, yet he said frankly that if I had conducted the whole war much bloodshed would have been spared, and that what the army might have lost through the inspiriting results of collision in the field would have been amply made up by the liberalizing influences of travel.

Further endorsement does not seem to me to be necessary.
Let us now examine history, and see what it teaches.

In the 4 battles fought in 1881 and the two fought by Jameson, the British loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, was substantially 1,300 men; the Boer loss, as far as is ascertainable, eras about 30 men.