The dazed shaken soldiers continued a futile resistance for some time, but there was neither help nor escape and nothing for them but surrender.

The most Spartan military critic cannot blame them.

A few slipped away besides those who escaped upon the engine.

Our losses were two killed, twenty wounded, and about eighty taken.

It is remarkable that of the three leaders both Haldane and Churchill succeeded in escaping from Pretoria.
A double tide of armed men was now pouring into Southern Natal.