No doubt the recruiting of rebels was helped, but there was no forward movement and Molteno remained in our hands.

In the meanwhile Gatacre's force was reinforced by a fresh battery, the 79th, and by a strong regiment, the Derbyshires, so that with the 1st Royal Scots and the wing of the Berkshires he was strong enough to hold his own until the time for a general advance should come.

So in the Stormberg district, as at the Modder River, the same humiliating and absurd position of stalemate was established..