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Another small reverse occurred at a far distant point of the seat of war, for the irregular corps known as Steinacker's Horse was driven from its position at Bremersdorp in Swaziland upon July 24th, and had to fall back sixteen miles, with a loss of ten casualties and thirty prisoners.
They were a group of men called "Steinacker's Horse," a corps formed of all the desperadoes and vagabonds to be scraped together from isolated places in the north, including kaffir storekeepers, smugglers, spies, and scoundrels of every description, the whole commanded by a character of the name of . Who or what this gentleman was I have never been able to discover, but judging by his work and by the men under him, he must have been a second Musolino.
Hardly was the fight over and our prisoners disarmed when a sentry we had posted on the wall called out: "Look out, there is a kaffir commando coming!" It was, in fact, a strong kaffir commando, headed by the chief M'pisana himself, who had come to the rescue of his friends of Steinacker's Horse.
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