They lost a hundred wagons, a considerable quantity of stores, and seven twelve-pounder guns--five from U battery and two from Q.Of U battery only Major Taylor and Sergeant-Major Martin seem to have escaped, the rest being captured en bloc.

Of Q battery nearly every man was killed or wounded.

Roberts's Horse, the New Zealanders, and the mounted infantry were the other corps which suffered most heavily.

Among many brave men who died, none was a greater loss to the service than Major Booth of the Northumberland Fusiliers, serving in the mounted infantry.

With four comrades he held a position to cover the retreat, and refused to leave it.