I can only compare their rush to an artillery charge or to an attack of massed cavalry battalions.

It was my fortune to see the former at Magenta and the latter at Sadowa, so that I know what such illustration means.

I may also say that I saw the relief column which Roberts organized rush through a town on its way to relieve Mafeking; and no one who had the delight of seeing that inspiring progress of a flying army on their way to relieve their comrades needs to be told what a rush of armed men can be.

With speed which was simply desperate they ran up the hill, and, circling to the left, made a ring round the topmost plateau, where stood the King.

When the ring was complete, the stream went on lapping round and round till the whole tally was exhausted.