But this time, at last, he had completely outmanoeuvred them.

He came with the news of his coming, and Broadwood with the 12th Lancers rushed the drift.

The small Boer force saved itself by flight, and the camp, the wagons, and the supplies remained with the victors.

On the night of the 13th he had secured the passage of the Modder, and up to the early morning the horses and the guns were splashing through its coffee-coloured waters.
French's force had now come level to the main position of the Boers, but had struck it upon the extreme left wing.

The extreme right wing, thanks to the Koodoosdrift demonstration, was fifty miles off, and this line was naturally very thinly held, save only at the central position of Magersfontein.