About midday French's horse-artillery guns came into action from the north.

Smoke and flames from the dongas told that some of our shells had fallen among the wagons and their combustible stores.
The Boer line had proved itself to be unshakable on each face, but at its ends the result of the action was to push them up, and to shorten the stretch of the river which was held by them.

On the north bank Smith-Dorrien's brigade gained a considerable amount of ground.

At the other end of the position the Welsh, Yorkshire, and Essex regiments of Stephenson's brigade did some splendid work, and pushed the Boers for some distance down the river bank.

A most gallant but impossible charge was made by Colonel Hannay and a number of mounted infantry against the northern bank.