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Updated: June 11, 2025
Shortly afterwards, despairing of holding the kliphok any longer, they ran down to the foot of the hill for their horses, and saw that the rest of the burghers were already fleeing some eight or nine hundred paces in front of them, and that their own horses had joined in the flight. There was now only one course open to them to surrender to the English.
Unfortunately, seven burghers from Heilbron were at a short distance from the others, having taken up their position in a kliphok. Fighting hard as they were, under a deafening gun-fire from the enemy, who had approached to within a few paces of them, they did not observe that their comrades had left their positions.
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