A fresh regiment was to take the lead.
The colonel collected his men at the edge of the nullah, and said: "Gordons, the general says that the position must be taken, at all costs.

The Gordons are to do it!" The signal was given, the batteries at once opened fire, and the cliff was crowned with a circle of bursting shrapnel.

Then the officers of the Gordons dashed over the nullah, the pipes rolled out the charge and, with clenched teeth, the Highlanders burst into the open.

The length of the exposed zone was swept with the leaden stream.

The head of the upper column melted away; but a few struggled on, and others took the places of the fallen.