Then we heard the bugler sounding the charge high up on our right, and we could just see the flank attack rushing forward and cheering.

The Boers were galloping away or running from the top.

The Devons also sounded the charge and rushed up the front of the position, but from that isolated hill on our left they met so obstinate a fire that the order for magazine firing was given, and for a few minutes the rifles rattled without a second's pause, in a long roar of fire.

Then, with a wild cheer, the Devons cleared the position.

It is due to them to say that they were first at the guns.