Fifty of the Liverpools were killed and wounded, 200 taken.

No ammunition of the gun was captured, but the Boers were able to get safely away with this humiliating evidence of their victory.

One post, under Captain Wilkinson with forty men, held out with success, and harassed the enemy in their retreat.

As at Dewetsdorp and at Nooitgedacht, the Boers were unable to retain their prisoners, so that the substantial fruits of their enterprise were small, but it forms none the less one more of those incidents which may cause us to respect our enemy and to be critical towards ourselves.

[Footnote: Considering that Major Stapelton Cotton was himself wounded in three places during the action (one of these wounds being in the head), he has had hard measure in being deprived of his commission by a court-martial which sat eight months after the event.