Hoskier was shot in five places, and Vice was mortally wounded, only Howe escaping.

The rest of the scouts, being farther back, were able to get cover and to keep up a fight until they were extricated by the remainder of the force.

Altogether our loss was formidable rather in quality than in quantity, for not more than a dozen were hit, while the Boers suffered considerably from the fire of our guns.
On March 5th General Gatacre found that the Boers were retreating in front of him--in response, no doubt, to messages similar to those which had already been received at Colesberg.

Moving forward he occupied the position which had confronted him so long.

Thence, having spent some days in drawing in his scattered detachments and in mending the railway, he pushed forward on March 12th to Burghersdorp, and thence on the 13th to Olive Siding, to the south of the Bethulie Bridge.
There are two bridges which span the broad muddy Orange River, thick with the washings of the Basutoland mountains.