General French with his infantry in waggons, five squadrons of cavalry, and ten guns attacked the Boer ponton at daybreak on the Ist of january and shelled the lager from a kopje overlooking Colesberg, silencing their guns, and then took up a Position cutting off the retreat of the Boers by the road bridge. The enemy to the number of five to seven thousand strong occupies a strong laager near the railroad junction. The British loss was three killed and seven wounded.
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