Such as it was, however, it cost the life of at least one brave soldier, for Colonel Thorold, of the Welsh Fusiliers, was among the fallen.

Thorold, Thackeray, and Sitwell in one evening.

Who can say that British colonels have not given their men a lead?
The army was now at a deadlock.

Railway Hill barred the way, and if Hart's men could not carry it by assault it was hard to say who could.
The 24th found the two armies facing each other at this critical point, the Irishmen still clinging to the slopes of the hill and the Boers lining the top.

Fierce rifle firing broke out between them during the day, but each side was well covered and lay low.