Battles of the nineteenth century . itions. On -Monday, the iqtli, Hlangwane Hill wasabandoned by the Boers as soon as our troops advanced to occupy it. Hlangwane commandsColenso and the crossing near the village, andby Monday morning the Boers had evacuated it,and later in the day General Harts Irish brigademarched into the village from Chieveley, andthe Royal Engineers got the railway intoworking order up to the old station. Duringthe Mondaj- and Tuesday BuUer was at workimproving the roads from Chieveley to the cap-tured-hills, bridging the stream, and bringing upguns and ammunition to prep
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Battles of the nineteenth century . itions. On -Monday, the iqtli, Hlangwane Hill wasabandoned by the Boers as soon as our troops advanced to occupy it. Hlangwane commandsColenso and the crossing near the village, andby Monday morning the Boers had evacuated it, and later in the day General Harts Irish brigademarched into the village from Chieveley, andthe Royal Engineers got the railway intoworking order up to the old station. Duringthe Mondaj- and Tuesday BuUer was at workimproving the roads from Chieveley to the cap-tured-hills, bridging the stream, and bringing upguns and ammunition to prepared positions onthe heights south of the river. From the highhill of Groblers Kloof, on the north bank, theBoers from time td time shelled our positions atColenso and Hlangwane, and a couple of 4^7naval guns at Chieveley replied to them. Therewas also occasional sniping along the river banks.On Tuesday afternoon the engineers begandragging their pontoon-trains across the hills.The passage of the Tugela was to be attemptednext day.. CAIlAIN LAMUrON, R.N. 247 CHAPTER XXIX. THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH. AT Colenso village the River Tugela makesa sharp beud to the northward, run-ning for about three miles through avalley between Hlangwane Hill onthe right bank and the mass of low kopjessouth of Groblers Kloof on the left. As itbends round the northern spur of Hlangwanethere is half a mile of rapids, and then twobeautiful waterfalls extending from bank to bank.Below the falls the river winds for about fourmiles to the north-eastward, and then sweepsround the northern end of the Monte Cristoridge. From the bridge at Colenso (destroyedby the Boers) the railway on the north side ofthe Tugela gradually approaches the bend ofthe river, and follows its left bank through thevallej as far as the falls. It then leaves the riverbank, and runs generall)- northward by Pietersstation through a ravine-like valley which lieseast of Groblers Kloof, and opens into the basinof the Klip River south of Lad