But the infantry came on with the old dash without the old stubborn resolution being opposed to them.

The guns prepared the way, and then the Dorsets, the Dublins, the Middlesex, the Queen's, and the East Surrey did the rest.

The door was open and the Transvaal lay before us.

The next day Volksrust was in our hands.
The whole series of operations were excellently conceived and carried out.

Putting Colenso on one side, it cannot be denied that General Buller showed considerable power of manoeuvring large bodies of troops.
The withdrawal of the compromised army after Spion Kop, the change of the line of attack at Pieter's Hill, and the flanking marches in this campaign of Northern Natal, were all very workmanlike achievements.
In this case a position which the Boers had been preparing for months, scored with trenches and topped by heavy artillery, had been rendered untenable by a clever flank movement, the total casualties in the whole affair being less than two hundred killed and wounded.