I think only one horse was badly hurt, but at no military tournament have I seen artillery move in such excellent style.
It was all over in a minute.

The Boers must have measured the range to a yard, and just have kept that gun loaded and waiting.
But in tactics jokes may be mistakes.

That shot revealed the enemy's position.

Within ten minutes our gunners had snipt the barbed wire fences along the railway, had dashed their guns across, and were dragging them up that low rocky ridge--say, 300ft.

to 400ft.