 Complete the following phrase:  In the two months before the outbreak of the Second Boer War, 10,000 British soldiers arrived in Durban to reinforce the 2,000 already there. They were deployed by train to Ladysmith and Dundee. The war broke out on 12 October 1899, and on 30 October after the Battle of Nicholsons Nek, half the British forces retreated south of the Tugela while the other half were 