Note (return) — Chapter XVI

Here they entered the precincts of the area into which Lord Kitchener was endeavouring in one grand drive to sweep the Boer remnants of the S.W. Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. Elliott was wheeling round from Reitz through Vredefort and Klerksdorp and advancing on the line of the Modder River, behind which stood Bruce Hamilton.59 A considerable amount of transport and live stock was taken; also 500 Boers, among whom Smuts and his commando were not.