General Chermside occupied Dewetsdorp.
Bloemfontein Waterworks recaptured.
26.—Sir C. Warren appointed Governor of Griqualand West.
27.—Thabanchu occupied.
28.—Fighting near Thabanchu Mountain.
MAY 1900.
1.—General Hamilton captured Houtnek.
5.—British occupation of Brandfort.
Lord Roberts’s further advance to the Vet River.
6.—The Vet River passed and Smaldeel occupied.