On the 21st the Dorsets, Middlesex, and Somersets had borne the heat of the day.

On the 22nd it was the Royal Lancasters, followed by the South Lancashires, who took up the running.

It would take the patience and also the space of a Kinglake in this scrambling broken fight to trace the doings of those groups of men who strove and struggled through the rifle fire.

All day a steady advance was maintained over the low kopjes, until by evening we were faced by the more serious line of the Pieter's Hills.

The operations had been carried out with a monotony of gallantry.