Position at Zuikerbosch. 12 m. below Heidleburg
attacked on 21st July by 1000 Boers with 4 guns.
Defended by 180. 2 R.D.F, 110 Engineers, 10 Yeomen, no guns.
Under Major English 2 R.D.F.
From a sketch by Col. H. Tempest Hicks, C.B.
'It is vain for you to rise up early.'—Ps. cxxvii. 2.
Having been for a month at Heidelberg, we had begun to quite make it our own, and felt as if we should finish the war where we were. And although there were still any amount of commandoes in the field, we could scarcely be blamed for thinking that the back of the business was broken, and that a few weeks, or at the outside months, must see us returning to England. Well, we reckoned without our host, or rather the hosts of Messrs. Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, & Co., and if we made a mistake we made it in good company.