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Updated: May 14, 2025
I informed General Cronje in my message that the English, who had been stationed at Blauwbank, had made a move in the direction of Paardenberg's Drift; and I advised him to get out of their road as quickly as he could, for they numbered, according to my computation, forty or fifty thousand men.
At my request, Commandants Andreas Cronje, Piet Fourie, Scholten and Lubbe joined me, and that evening we camped quite close to the spot where the English force was stationed! Early the next day, before the enemy had made any movement, we started for Blauwbank, and, having arrived there, we took up our positions. Shortly afterwards the fight began; it was confined entirely to the artillery.
I remained where I was throughout the next day; but in the evening I saw the convoy camping near Blauwbank, just to the west of the Riet River. I also observed that the greater part of the troops had gone forward with Lord Roberts. On the 18th I still kept hidden, for the English army had not yet moved out of camp.
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