Another important action to be chronicled is the successful repulse
of the attack made by Delarey on Colonel Kekewich's force. Delarey's force was said to have been over a thousand, and he appears to have acted with great dash and vigour. Our troop % behaved magnificently, and, though outnumbered, beat off the attack. We note that among them were some of the new Yeomanry. That force, in our, opinion, has been treated with gross injustice, for, as far as we know, it has always borne itself with great gallantry in the field in spite of its rawness, and of the fact that it has not had the advantage—it was an advantage, we fully admit—of being officered by well-known hunting men and country gentlemen. The tendency shown by the Boers to attack has caused some anxiety in the country, as it has been taken as a proof of an increase of strength. We do not think so. We regard it rather as a last despairing effort, such as was exhibited by the Southerners during the list three months of the war. Till the final collapse their policy was to be always attacking. After all, what else can deeperate, and in reality beaten, men do if they are determined not to give in ?
