The whole mistake lay in a miscalculation of a few hundred yards in the position of the trenches.

Had the regiments deployed five minutes earlier it is probable (though by no means certain) that the position would have been carried.
The action was not without those examples of military virtue which soften a disaster, and hold out a brighter promise for the future.

The Guards withdrew from the field as if on parade, with the Boer shells bursting over their ranks.

Fine, too, was the restraint of G Battery of Horse Artillery on the morning after the battle.

An armistice was understood to exist, but the naval gun, in ignorance of it, opened on our extreme left.