The Dublins and the Connaughts were the heaviest sufferers.
So much for the mishap of the 5th Brigade.

It is superfluous to point out that the same old omissions were responsible for the same old results.

Why were the men in quarter column when advancing against an unseen foe?
Why had no scouts gone forward to be certain of the position of the ford?
Where were the clouds of skirmishers which should precede such an advance?
The recent examples in the field and the teachings of the text-books were equally set at naught, as they had been, and were to be, so often in this campaign.

There may be a science of war in the lecture-rooms at Camberley, but very little of it found its way to the veld.

The slogging valour of the private, the careless dash of the regimental officer--these were our military assets--but seldom the care and foresight of our commanders.