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Hunter, moving northwards after the
capitulation of Prinsloo at Fouriesburg, came into contact on
August 15th with this force near Heilbron, and had forty
casualties, mainly of the Highland Light Infantry, in a brisk
engagement. For a time the British seemed to have completely lost
touch with Olivier, who suddenly on August 24th struck at a small
detachment consisting almost entirely of Queenstown Rifle
Volunteers under Colonel Ridley, who were reconnoitring near
Winburg. The Colonial troopers made a gallant defence. Throwing
themselves into the farmhouse of Helpmakaar, and occupying every
post of vantage around it, they held off more than a thousand
assailants, in spite of the three guns which the latter brought to
bear upon them. A hundred and thirty-two rounds were fired at the
house, but the garrison still refused to surrender. Troopers who
had been present at Wepener declared that the smaller action was
the warmer of the two. Finally on the morning of the third day a
relief force arrived upon the scene, and the enemy dispersed.


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