Battles of the nineteenth century . - the dismountedfire of the Carbineers and lotnHussars with Maxim squadrons of the Inniskillings were keptmounted to try and cut off the enemys re-treat. At 3 the Boers, finding ourfire too heavy for them, commenced to retire,and an hour later they were in full account of the broken ground, it was im-possible to cut them off. The engagementlasted twelve hours, and the enemys losses havesince been ascertained from a deserter to bebetween forty and fifty, while those on our sidewere very much smaller. The Boers numbered1,800. The Colo
Battles of the nineteenth century . - the dismountedfire of the Carbineers and lotnHussars with Maxim squadrons of the Inniskillings were keptmounted to try and cut off the enemys re-treat. At 3 the Boers, finding ourfire too heavy for them, commenced to retire,and an hour later they were in full account of the broken ground, it was im-possible to cut them off. The engagementlasted twelve hours, and the enemys losses havesince been ascertained from a deserter to bebetween forty and fifty, while those on our sidewere very much smaller. The Boers numbered1,800. The Colonials were protecting the otherside of the camp and did not come into British losses were, one officer (CaptainMoseley, 6th Dragoons) wounded, and of therank and file one man killed and six wounded inthe 6th Dragoons (Inniskillings), and two menwounded in the loth Hussars. The action wastypical of much of the fightin-g on this part of. {/ft coiintiand 0 Zealand Mounted Rijles.) the northern border. This and other affairs ofthe same kind were described in the press tele-grams as important victories ; but they werereally little better than desultorj- will be observed that this fight on December13th lasted in all about twelve hours. Duringthat time there were nine casualties on theBritish side, or one, on an average, every hourand twentjf minutes. On the other side, accord-ing to a deserter, the loss was from forty to usually say what they think will pleasetheir new friends, so the loss was probably muchsmaller ; but even taking it at fifty, we havefour casualties an hour. The Boers, on theirpart, appear to have been fairly well satisfiedwith the days work. Theyhad worried the British,drawn their fire, and keptthem active for a long they had got awaywithout giving the cavalrya chance to cut in upon silencing of the gunsmentioned frequently in theletter that has bee
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