Battles of the nineteenth century . employing a large partof them in carrying on a re-gular siege of Dalgetys posi-tion near Wepener. Therewas another body of thecnemv, under De Wet, atDe Wets Dorp, which wasvaguely estimated at men, though it is quitepossible he never musteredhalf that force. Other commandoes coveredthe line of retreat of the raiders by holdingThaba Nchu and the waterworks at SaunasPost. By the middle of the month, the army beingsufficiently reorganised. Lord Roberts abandonedthe purely defensive attitude he had firstadopted and began active operations against ther
Battles of the nineteenth century . employing a large partof them in carrying on a re-gular siege of Dalgetys posi-tion near Wepener. Therewas another body of thecnemv, under De Wet, atDe Wets Dorp, which wasvaguely estimated at men, though it is quitepossible he never musteredhalf that force. Other commandoes coveredthe line of retreat of the raiders by holdingThaba Nchu and the waterworks at SaunasPost. By the middle of the month, the army beingsufficiently reorganised. Lord Roberts abandonedthe purely defensive attitude he had firstadopted and began active operations against theraiders. Chermsides division was concentratedabout Bethanie, and Rundles was brought upby railway to Edenburg Station, twelve milesfurther south. The two divisions, united underRundles command, were then pushed eastwardto Reddersburg, the 3rd Division leading, withthe Sth in support. Colviles division was sentout towards Saunas Post by the Thaba Nchuroad, and Ian Hamiltons mounted infantry,and as much of Frenchs cavalry as had been. COLONEL DALGETV.{Ptioto: Hcalcy, QiteensloTvn.) provided with remounts, and Pole-Carewsdivision, were sent out of Bloemfontein to thesouth-eastward along the De Wets Dorp bar the further progress of the Boers to thesouthward. Hart, with the Irish Brigade, wastemporarily detached from Hunters division,and sent up by railway to the north-east of CapeColony, to support Brabant in an advance fromAliwal North to the relief—- of Wepener, which was closely besieged by Olivier. The object of Lord Robertswas not merely to drive backthe Boers to the hoped to cut off theirretreat and capture largenumbers of prisoners and thegreater part of their waggon-train and artillery. But itlooks as if—perhaps froman exaggerated idea of theenemys strength—the planhe adopted was hardly calcu-lated to secure this end. Fivedivisions of infantry andmounted troops convergedfrom the eastward on DeWets Dorp, in the hope ofsurrounding the Boers at thatpo
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