I ordered them to remain there until nightfall, and then to advance within four miles of Groenkop, to the north, where I would meet them.
This was done.

I found the commando at the appointed place, and also General Brand and Commandant Karel Coetzee, who had come on a visit that day to my commando.

They also took part in the attack.

My men consisted of burghers from General Michal Prinsloo, Commandants Hermanus Botha, Van Coller, Olivier, Rautenbach, Koen, Jan Jacobsz and Mears, in all six hundred men.

Of these I left one hundred in charge of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt and the pack-horses.
We had not a single waggon with us; every man put what he had with him on his pack-horse, for long we had made it a rule not to be hampered with waggons.