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November), Graspan (25 November) and the Modder River (28 November 1899), Methuen had
only to overcome the Boer forces under Assistant Commandant-general Piet Cronjé to achieve the
relief of Kimberley. Some 25km (15 miles) south of that town a ragged line of hills runs across the
route from Modder River Station and these were held by the Boers. On 29 November the Boers held
a council of war. Their first inclination was to take up positions on the heights at Spytfontein, closer
to Kimberley, but it was argued that there they would be exposed to observation and fire from
Magersfontein. It is reported that there was a disagreement between De la Rey and Cronjé on this,
and that President Steyn tipped the balance in favour of the former at a further council of war on 4
December. In any case the Boers moved to the Magersfontein line later that day. The hills known as
the Magersfontein kopjes lie to the east of the railway and to the north-west on the other side of the
track they extend and curve west. The railway itself is thus overlooked by substantial hills. To the
east of Magersfontein, running almost due south, a ridge slopes gently to the Modder River at Moss
Drift (marked as Voetpads Drift on the map later
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