JULY 1900.
1.—Generals Hunter and MacDonald joined hands at Frankfort.
4.—General Buller’s forces and those of the Commander-in-Chief joined at Vlakfontein.
Entire railway from Natal to Johannesburg in hands of the British.
General Paget drove the enemy from strong positions towards Bethlehem.
7.—General Buller arrived at Pretoria.
Bethlehem captured by Generals Clements and Paget. De Wet put to flight.
11.—Squadron of Scots Greys, five companies of the Lincolnshire Regiment, with two guns of the O Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, captured at Nitral’s Nek. General Smith-Dorrien successfully engaged the Boers near Krugersdorp.
16.—Determined attacks by Boers on left flank of British posts in the Pretoria district. Enemy driven off with loss.
19.—General Little engaged De Wet near Lindley, and broke up his forces.