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Updated: May 1, 2025
With regard to myself, I remained in the neighbourhood of Commandant Nel's farm. Here I had the most wonderful of all the escapes that God allowed me in the whole course of the war. On the third evening at sunset, a Hottentot came to me.
On reaching the summit we discovered that the British troops occupied positions extending from the southern point to the middle of the mountain. The enemy, the moment we appeared on the ridge, opened a heavy rifle fire upon us. We answered with as severe a fusillade as theirs. Whilst we were shooting, twenty of Commandant Nel's men joined us and helped us to hold our ground.
Seeing the effect of Nel's remonstrances, Faber, Bezuidenhout, and other leaders, assembled their forces at a place called Slachters Nek, and exacted from them an oath to remain faithful to each other until they had expelled the tyrants from the frontier. Next morning Colonel Cuyler proceeded to attack them.
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