But before we reached them, they again began to shoot, killing Veldtcornet Du Plessis, of Kroonstad.

This treacherous act enraged our burghers, who at once commenced to fire with deadly effect.
Soon the white flag appeared above almost every stone behind which an Englishman lay, but our men did not at once cease firing.

Indeed! I had the greatest difficulty in calming them, and in inducing them to stop, for they were, as may well be imagined, furious at the misuse of the white flag.
Strewn everywhere about on the ground lay the English killed and wounded.

According to the official statement, they had a hundred casualties, the commanding officer himself being amongst the killed.
We took four hundred and seventy prisoners of war, all of them belonging to the Royal Irish Rifles and the Mounted Infantry.

But I cared nothing to what regiment they belonged or what was the rank of the officer in command.