Some of the British were dismounted men, and it says much for Plumer's conduct of the fight that he was able to extricate these safely from the midst of an aggressive mounted enemy.
Personally he set an admirable example, sending away his own horse, and walking with his rearmost soldiers.

Captain Crewe Robertson and Lieutenant Milligan, the famous Yorkshire cricketer, were killed, and Rolt, Jarvis, Maclaren, and Plumer himself were wounded.

The Rhodesian force withdrew again to near Lobatsi, and collected itself for yet another effort.
In the meantime Mafeking--abandoned, as it seemed, to its fate--was still as formidable as a wounded lion.

Far from weakening in its defence it became more aggressive, and so persistent and skilful were its riflemen that the big Boer gun had again and again to be moved further from the town.

Six months of trenches and rifle-pits had turned every inhabitant into a veteran.