General Hertzog also fought more than one battle at Jagersfontein and Fauresmith.
I ought to add that after I had crossed the Magaliesberg I had sent Veldtcornet C.C.Badenhorst, with twenty-seven men, on a similar errand to the districts of Boshof and Hoopstad.

I promoted him to the rank of commandant, and he soon had a thousand troops under him, so that he was able to engage the enemy on several occasions.

He had not been long occupied in this way, before I appointed him Vice-Commander-in-Chief.
The reader who has followed me throughout this narrative, may very naturally ask here how it could be justifiable for nearly three thousand burghers thus to take up arms again, and break their oath of neutrality?
I will answer this question by another--who first broke the terms of this oath ?--the burghers or the English military authorities?
The military authorities without any doubt; what other answer can one give?
Lord Roberts had issued a proclamation saying that, if the burghers took an oath of neutrality, and remained quietly on their farms, he would give them protection for their persons and property.

But what happened?
He himself ordered them to report to the British military authorities, should any Boer scout or commandos come to their farms, and threatened them with punishment if they did not do so.

Old people also who had never stirred one step from their farms were fined hundreds of pounds when the railway or telegraph lines in their neighbourhood were wrecked.
Besides, instead of protection being given to the burghers, their cattle were taken from them by the military, at prices they would never have thought of accepting, and often by force.