Just after that the Manchesters and Gordons began to force their way along the top of the ridge on the Boers' left.

They had the dismounted Imperial Light Horse with them, and it was there that the loss was most terrible.

Sometimes the advance hardly seemed to move, sometimes it rushed forward, and then appeared to swing back again.

It was six o'clock, rain was falling in torrents, and it was getting dark.

Perhaps the Gordons suffered most.