Note 49 — Chapter IX · BLOEMFONTEIN TO KOMATI POORT

I have no space for details, but I ask the reader to study either the Times or the Official narratives; and I suggest that it was not worth while to make so great a circuit in order to turn out 500 Boers from distant flank posts. If French, leaving a small containing force, had advanced direct upon Lakenvlei by the road the Infantry took, he would have been in a position to act upon the Boer rear at an early hour.