Wherever there was ridge or kopje the Boer riflemen staved off the eager pursuers.

Where the ground lay flat and clear the British guns thundered onwards and fired into the lines of wagons.

Mile after mile the running fight was sustained, but the other British columns, Broadwood's men and Kitchener's men, had for some reason not come up.

Methuen alone was numerically inferior to the men he was chasing, but he held on with admirable energy and spirit.

The Boers were hustled off the kopjes from which they tried to cover their rear.
Twenty men of the Yorkshire Yeomanry carried one hill with the bayonet, though only twelve of them were left to reach the top.
De Wet trekked onwards during the night of the 9th, shedding wagons and stores as he went.