One man wounded, the gallant Henderson, is the cheap price for the best-planned and most dashing exploit of the war.

Secrecy in conception, vigour in execution--they are the root ideas of the soldier's craft.

So easily was the enterprise carried out, and so defective the Boer watch, that it is probable that if all the guns had been simultaneously attacked the Boers might have found themselves without a single piece of ordnance in the morning.

[Footnote: The destruction of the Creusot was not as complete as was hoped.

It was taken back to Pretoria, three feet were sawn off the muzzle, and a new breech-block provided.