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On 13th the Botha's army retreated to the north, they were chased as far as Elands River Station, only 25 miles from Pretoria, by Mounted Infantry and De Lisle's Australians.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historion.net/great-boer-war/chapter-26-diamond-hill-rundles-operations?page=4|title=Diamond Hill – Rundle's Operations|website=Historion.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186097915 |title=Letter From The Front. |newspaper=[[The Inverell Times]] |volume=21 |issue=2849 |location=New South Wales|date=18 August 1900 |access-date=22 November 2016 |page=2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190066961 |title=The Diamond Hill Fight |newspaper=[[The Age]] |issue=14,133 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 June 1900 |access-date=22 November 2016 |page=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85853767 |title=The Battle of Diamond Hill |newspaper=[[Windsor and Richmond Gazette]] |volume=12 |issue=641 |location=New South Wales|date=26 January 1901 |access-date=22 November 2016 |page=1 }}</ref> Although Roberts had removed the Boer threat to his eastern flank, the Boers were unbowed despite their retreat. [[Jan Smuts]] wrote that the battle had "an inspiriting effect which could scarcely have been improved by a real victory."{{Sfn|Pakenham|1992|p=160}} |
On 13th the Botha's army retreated to the north, they were chased as far as Elands River Station, only 25 miles from Pretoria, by Mounted Infantry and De Lisle's Australians.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historion.net/great-boer-war/chapter-26-diamond-hill-rundles-operations?page=4|title=Diamond Hill – Rundle's Operations|website=Historion.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186097915 |title=Letter From The Front. |newspaper=[[The Inverell Times]] |volume=21 |issue=2849 |location=New South Wales|date=18 August 1900 |access-date=22 November 2016 |page=2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190066961 |title=The Diamond Hill Fight |newspaper=[[The Age]] |issue=14,133 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 June 1900 |access-date=22 November 2016 |page=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85853767 |title=The Battle of Diamond Hill |newspaper=[[Windsor and Richmond Gazette]] |volume=12 |issue=641 |location=New South Wales|date=26 January 1901 |access-date=22 November 2016 |page=1 }}</ref> Although Roberts had removed the Boer threat to his eastern flank, the Boers were unbowed despite their retreat. [[Jan Smuts]] wrote that the battle had "an inspiriting effect which could scarcely have been improved by a real victory."{{Sfn|Pakenham|1992|p=160}} |
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Forty-four years after the battle, [[British people|British]] General [[Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton|Ian Hamilton]] opined in his memoirs that "the battle, which ensured that the Boers could not recapture Pretoria, was the turning point of the war". Hamilton credited war correspondent |
Forty-four years after the battle, [[British people|British]] General [[Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton|Ian Hamilton]] opined in his memoirs that "the battle, which ensured that the Boers could not recapture Pretoria, was the turning point of the war". Hamilton credited war correspondent[[Winston Churchill]] with recognizing that the key to victory would be in storming the summit, and risking his life to signal Hamilton.<ref>Kelly (2008) pp. 57–58</ref> |
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