The wounded who managed to escape included General Froneman, who was slightly wounded in the chest; Mr.
Thomas Brain, who had been hit in the thigh; and one of my staff who was severely wounded, his shoulder being pierced by a bullet.
According to English reports, Dr.De Landsheer, a Belgian, was killed in this engagement.

The English newspapers asserted that the doctor was found dead with a bandolier round his body.

I can vouch for the fact that the doctor possessed neither rifle nor bandolier, and I am unable to believe that he armed himself on the battlefield.
Six of our Krupp guns were captured in this battle, but as our ammunition for these pieces was nearly exhausted, the loss of them made little difference to us.
I feel compelled to add that, if the burghers had stood shoulder to shoulder we should certainly have driven back the enemy, and the mishap would never have occurred.

We were eight hundred men strong, and the enemy numbered not more than one thousand to one thousand two hundred.
But a surprise attack such as theirs had been usually produces disastrous consequences.
[Footnote 73: Pioneer.].