2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers. 2nd Rifle Brigade. 1st King's Liverpool. Imperial Light Infantry. 61st Field Battery (Howitzers). Two Nordenfeldts (taken from the Boers). Natal Battery 9-pounders. Fourteen naval 12-pounder quick-firers. 4th Mountain Battery. 10th Mountain Battery, two guns. Four 4.7 naval guns. Naval 6-in. gun. Part of Siege Train. CAVALRY DIVISION. 1st Brigade (Major-General J. F. Burn Murdoch). 2nd Brigade (Major-General J. F. Brocklehurst). 3rd Brigade (Major-General the Earl of Dundonald). 5th Dragoon Guards. 1st Royal Dragoons. 5th Lancers. 13th Hussars. 18th Hussars. 19th Hussars. A Battery Royal Horse Artillery. South African Light Horse. Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry. Bethune's Mounted Infantry. Natal Carabineers. Natal Mounted Rifles. Border Mounted Rifles. Umvoti Mounted Rifles. Natal Police. Colt Battery. ZULULAND. Addison's Colonial Scouts. For some weeks it appeared as though no move were contemplated; but on the 7th of May the machinery began to revolve. General Clery's Division proceeded from Ladysmith to Modder Spruit, while Lord Dundonald and General Dartnell also prepared to move their troops out of camp at Bug's Farm. Lord Roberts at this time had reached a point in the Free State level with Ladysmith, and Sir Redvers Buller thus became included in the scheme of advance, and was able to act in conjunction with him. The Boers, numbering some 7000 or 8000, were swarming on the Biggarsberg range, having prepared entrenchments on all points commanding the road from Ladysmith to the Transvaal and as far as Helpmakaar. They knew well by experience, however, the discomforts attendant on their position, for their only clear way of escape was by Laing's Nek--the passes over the Drakensberg on the west, and Zululand on the east being now closed to them. On the 11th of May activities began. Dundonald's Cavalry Brigade and Clery's Infantry Division were assembled in the neighbourhood of Sunday River Drift south of Elandslaagte. The General's plan was to post his left at Elandslaagte and swing his right flank round by Helpmakaar and crumple the Boers up towards Dundee. On the 12th Sir Redvers Buller, with the right column, moved towards Helpmakaar, following the same route as that taken by General Yule in his famous retreat from Glencoe, while General Hildyard (the central column) made a demonstration by crossing Sunday River, near the railway line, and Lyttelton's Division (the left column) prolonged the line farther west. Meanwhile, the brigades of Clery and Dundonald--over ruts and obstacles, mere apologies for roads--had reached Waschbank, and were facing the frowning heights of the Biggarsberg, which loomed large and ominous and threatening about fifteen miles in the distance.