Others were gradually dying.

Many were not found till daylight.

The dead of both sides lay unburied till Monday.
In the mud and stones just above the captured guns, General French stood giving directions for the bivouac, and dictating a message to Sir George White praising the troops, especially the infantry who had been commanded by Colonel Ian Hamilton.

The assemble kept sounding over the hill, and Gordons tried to sift themselves from Manchesters, and Light Horse from Devons.

All were shouting and questioning and calling to each other in the dark.