Positions which had been made theoretically untenable have again and again been found to be most inconveniently tenanted.

Among the troops actually engaged the confidence in the effect of shrapnel fire has steadily declined with their experience.

Some other method of artillery fire than the curving bullet from an exploding shrapnel shell must be devised for dealing with men who lie close among boulders and behind cover.
These remarks upon shrapnel might be included in the account of half the battles of the war, but they are particularly apposite to the action at Enslin.

Here a single large kopje formed the key to the position, and a considerable time was expended upon preparing it for the British assault, by directing upon it a fire which swept the face of it and searched, as was hoped, every corner in which a rifleman might lurk.

One of the two batteries engaged fired no fewer than five hundred rounds.
Then the infantry advance was ordered, the Guards being held in reserve on account of their exertions at Belmont.