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On that side also was a considerable force of Yeomanry, as General Villebois discovered. French's cavalry division was also in the centre. These were the troops operating in the Free State, with the addition of the division of mounted infantry in process of formation. These, with numerous militia and unbrigaded regiments along the lines of communication, formed the British army in South Africa.
For our regiments were at last completely surrounded, facing outward in an irregular circle, the front held by the Palatines, the rear by the Caughnawagas, the west by part of the Canajoharie regiment, and the east by a fraction of unbrigaded militia, teamsters, batt-men, bateaux-men, and half a dozen volunteer rangers reinforced by my three riflemen. The scene was real enough to me now.
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