Methuen's Fine Performance In Pursuit Of De Wet, Where
Douglas's Infantry Did Sixty-Six Miles In Seventy-Five Hours, The
City Imperial Volunteers covering 224 miles in fourteen days, with
a single forced march of thirty miles in seventeen hours,
The
Shropshires forty-three miles in thirty-two hours, the forty-five
miles in twenty-five hours of the Essex Regiment, Bruce Hamilton's
march recorded above, and many other fine efforts serve to show the
spirit and endurance of the troops.
In spite of the defeat at Winburg and the repulse at Ladybrand,
there still remained a fair number of broken and desperate men in
the Free State who held out among the difficult country of the
east. A party of these came across in the middle of September and
endeavoured to cut the railway near Brandfort. They were pursued
and broken up by Macdonald, who, much aided in his operations by
the band of scouts which Lord Lovat had brought with him from
Scotland, took several prisoners and a large number of wagons and
of oxen. A party of these Boers attacked a small post of sixteen
Yeomanry under Lieutenant Slater at Bultfontein, but were held at
bay until relief came from Brandfort.
At two other points the Boer and British forces were in contact
during these operations. One was to the immediate north of
Pretoria, where Grobler's commando was faced by Paget's brigade. On
August 18th the Boers were forced with some loss out of Hornies
Nek, which is ten miles to the north of the capital.
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