When the ballad-makers of Australia seek for a subject, let them turn to Elands River, for there was no finer resistance in the war.

They will not grudge a place in their record to the 130 gallant Rhodesians who shared with them the honours and the dangers of the exploit.
On August 7th Ian Hamilton abandoned Rustenburg, taking Baden-Powell and his men with him.

It was obviously unwise to scatter the British forces too widely by attempting to garrison every single town.

For the instant the whole interest of the war centred upon De Wet and his dash into the Transvaal.

One or two minor events, however, which cannot be fitted into any continuous narrative may be here introduced.
One of these was the action at Faber's Put, by which Sir Charles Warren crushed the rebellion in Griqualand.