This check constituted the action of Modderfontein.

On the 4th, however, Cunningham, assisted by some of the South African Constabulary, made his way round the flank, and dislodged the enemy, who retreated to the south.

A few days later some of Smuts's men made an attempt upon the railway near Bank, but were driven off with twenty-six casualties.

It was after this that Smuts moved west and joined De la Rey's commando to make the attack already described upon Lichtenburg.

These six attempts represent the chief aggressive movements which the Boers made against British posts in the Transvaal during these months.