The enemy's riflemen were only a thousand yards away, and the action of the artillery might have seemed as foolhardy as that of Long at Colenso.

Ten horses went down on the instant, and a quarter of the gunners were hit; but the guns roared one by one into action, and their shrapnel soon decided the day.

Undoubtedly it is with Connolly and his men that the honours lie.
At four o'clock, as the sun sank towards the west, the tide of fight had set in favour of the attack.

Two more batteries had come up, every rifle was thrown into the firing line, and the Boer reply was decreasing in volume.

The temptation to an assault was great, but even now it might mean heavy loss of life, and Hamilton shrank from the sacrifice.