Rundle was at Thabanchu, and Brabant's colonial division was moving up to the same point.

Chermside was at Dewetsdorp, and had detached a force under Lord Castletown to garrison Wepener.
Hart occupied Smithfield, whence he and his brigade were shortly to be transferred to the Kimberley force.

Altogether there could not have been fewer than thirty thousand men engaged in clearing and holding down this part of the country.

French's cavalry and Pole-Carew's division had returned to take part in the central advance.
Before entering upon a description of that great and decisive movement, one small action calls for comment.

This was the cutting off of twenty men of Lumsden's Horse in a reconnaissance at Karee.