Attack on Colonel Rimington's rearguard by De Wet repulsed. Many prisoners taken. 28.--Van Rensburg and thirteen burghers captured by Colonel Lowry Cole in Wepener district. DECEMBER 1901. 1.--General Elliot reached Kroonstad with 15 prisoners, 114 waggons, 89 carts, 2470 cattle, and 1280 horses. 3.--Colonel Colenbrander broke up Badenhorst's commando, and took fifteen prisoners and all the waggons. 4.--Laager surprised at Oshoek (twenty miles from Ermelo) by Spens' and Rawlinson's columns. Ninety-three prisoners taken. 7.--Colonel C. Mackenzie, in night march towards Watervaal (Eastern Transvaal), took sixteen prisoners. Colonel Holland surprised Brand's laager and took six Boers. 11.--Badenhorst and twenty-two burghers secured by Colonels Colenbrander and Dawkins, near Zandriverspoort. 13.--Brilliant surprise of Boers by General B. Hamilton at Witkraus. Laager broken up. One of Benson's guns recovered. 15.--Secretary of State for War congratulated General Bruce-Hamilton on his brilliant achievements. 16.--Haasbroek killed in encounter with Colonel Barker's men in the Doornberg. Capture of Kruitzinger by Colonel Dorans' and Lord Charles Bentinck's columns. 18.--Colonel Steele, with South African Constabulary, captured thirty-six Boers in the region of the Magaliesberg. Four hours' fighting between De Wet and General Dartnell. Boers driven off. Lord Methuen reported capture of thirty-two Boers. 19.--Colonel Allenby captured thirty-two of the enemy near Heidelberg. 20.--Colonel Damant attacked by 800 Boers. Two officers killed, three wounded. Boers repulsed. 21.--Capture of Smuts' convoy, near Bothwell, by Colonel Mackenzie. 22.--Seven hundred Cape raiders attacked columns of Colonels Wyndham and Crabbe. Were driven off with loss of five killed and twenty wounded. 23.--Successful attack on Grobelaar's laager by General B. Hamilton. 24.--Colonel Du Moulin surprised laager near Jagersfontein. Captured two Field-Cornets and twenty other Boers. 25.--Colonel Firman's camp at Tweefontein rushed by huge force under De Wet. 28.--Successful engagement near Burghersdorp by Colonel Price. Field-Cornet Jan Venter killed. JANUARY 1902. 3.--Capture of General Erasmus by General Bruce-Hamilton. 10.--Surprise of laager near Ermelo by Colonel Wing and capture of forty-two prisoners. 12.--More captures by General B. Hamilton. 13.--Fight for a convoy by De Villiers. Gallant charge of Munster Fusiliers. 16.--Capture of laager and twenty-four prisoners by Lord Methuen. 18.--Execution of Scheepers on various charges of murder at Graaff Reinet. Night expedition to Witbank. General Hamilton secured more prisoners. 21.--Colonels Park and Urmston engaged party of Boers under Muller and Trichardt, occasioning stampede of Boer Government from Houtenbek.