The attack was made upon one of the Boer positions by a force consisting of a detachment of the Light Horse and of the Cape Police, and their work was brilliantly successful.

The actual storming of the redoubt was carried out by some forty men, of whom but four were killed.

They brought back thirty-three prisoners as a proof of their victory, but the Boer gun, as usual, escaped us.

In this brilliant affair Scott-Turner was wounded, which did not prevent him, only three days later, from leading another sortie, which was as disastrous as the first had been successful.

Save under very exceptional circumstances it is in modern warfare long odds always upon the defence, and the garrison would probably have been better advised had they refrained from attacking the fortifications of their enemy--a truth which Baden-Powell learned also at Game Tree Hill.