Then came the command to sweep the position with the bayonet.
They fixed, and advanced at the quick till they reached the open.

Then, under a steady hail of bullets, they came on at the double--180 men, with the steel ready.

Colonel Park himself led them.

The Boers kept up an incessant fire till the line was within fifteen yards.

Then they turned and ran, leaping down the steep face of the hill, and disappearing in the dead ground.