Four companies of the Loyal \ Free Staters, and probably \ North Lancashire Regiment; | some Transvaal Boers, with | Battery of Royal Garrison | four field-guns, 3500; on | Artillery, consisting of six }2500 Orange River, 2000; }6500 7-pounder mountain-guns; a | Reinforcements from | large party of Royal | Mafeking, 1000 | Engineers; detachment of the | | Army Medical Corps / / MAFEKING Colonel Baden-Powell, with 500 \ 1000 Transvaal Boers under \ Cavalry, 200 Cape Mounted | Commandant Cronje; 500 | Police and B.S.A. Company's | Boers at Maritzani | Mounted Police, 60 Volunteers, }1500 }1500 6 machine-guns, two | | 7-pounders, 200 to 300 | | townsmen used to arms / / At Tuli, or moving towards Mafeking, was Colonel Plumer's column, which consisted of about 1000 men, and was opposed by an equal force of Boers. At Palapye there was a British force of 700, which was watched by a Burgher force of about 1000. The Boers had also a force estimated at 3000 in laager near Komati Poort. At Estcourt there was a considerable force under Brigadier-General Wolfe-Murray, and at Pietermaritzburg other troops. Distributed along the northern border of Cape Colony were some 5000 Free State Boers and about 1000 or 1500 British troops and police.