Troopers who had been present at Wepener declared that the smaller action was the warmer of the two.

Finally on the morning of the third day a relief force arrived upon the scene, and the enemy dispersed.

The British losses were thirty-two killed and wounded.

Nothing daunted by his failure, Olivier turned upon the town of Winburg and attempted to regain it, but was defeated again and scattered, he and his three sons being taken.

The result was due to the gallantry and craft of a handful of the Queenstown Volunteers, who laid an ambuscade in a donga, and disarmed the Boers as they passed, after the pattern of Sanna's Post.