 Complete the following phrase:  Buller became head of the troops stationed at Aldershot in 1898. He was sent as commander of the Natal Field Force in 1899 on the outbreak of the Second Boer War. On seeing the list of troops which would make up his Corps Buller is said to have remarked well, if I cant win with these, I ought to be kicked. By early September 1899 he had serious doubts that the Boers could not easily be browbeaten, and that Whites forces in Natal might receive some punishment if they deployed too far forward. He arrived at the end of October. He was defeated at the Battle of Colenso, during what was later to become known as Black Week. Defeats at the 