[The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Boer War CHAPTER 33 29/45
The Yeomanry all did well, especially the 5th and 10th battalions. So also did the Australians and the Loyal North Lancashires.
The British casualties amounted to sixteen killed and thirty-four wounded, while the Boers left eighteen of their dead upon the position which they had abandoned.
Lord Methuen's little force returned to Klerksdorp, having deserved right well of their country.
From Klerksdorp Methuen struck back westwards to the south of his former route, and on March 14th he was reported at Warrenton.
Here also in April came Erroll's small column, bringing with it the garrison and inhabitants of Hoopstad, a post which it had been determined, in accordance with Lord Kitchener's policy of centralisation, to abandon. In the month of January, 1901, there had been a considerable concentration of the Transvaal Boers into that large triangle which is bounded by the Delagoa railway line upon the north, the Natal railway line upon the south, and the Swazi and Zulu frontiers upon the east.
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