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That evening Clements had occupied
Bethlehem, and one more of their towns had passed out of the hands
of the Freestaters.
A word now as to that force under General Hunter which was closing
in from the north. The gallant and energetic Hamilton, lean,
aquiline, and tireless, had, as already stated, broken his
collar-bone at Heidelberg, and it was as his lieutenant that Hunter
was leading these troops out of the Transvaal into the Orange River
Colony. Most of his infantry was left behind at Heidelberg, but he
took with him Broadwood's cavalry (two brigades) and Bruce
Hamilton's 21st infantry brigade, with Ridley's mounted infantry,
some seven thousand men in all. On the 2nd of July this force
reached Frankfort in the north of the Free State without
resistance, and on July 3rd they were joined there by Macdonald's
force from Heilbron, so that Hunter found himself with over eleven
thousand men under his command. Here was an instrument with which
surely the coup de grace could be given to the dying State.


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