3rd King's Royal Rifle Corps and the 2nd Scottish Rifles. The Third Division: Fifth Irish Brigade, commanded by Maj.-Genl. Hart: 1st Inniskilling Fusilliers, 1st Connaught Rangers, 1st Royal Dublin Fusilliers, 1st Border Regiment. Sixth Fusillier Brigade commanded by Maj.-Genl. Barton: 2nd Royal Fusilliers, 2nd Royal Scots Fusilliers, 1st Royal Welch Fusilliers, 2nd Royal Irish Fusilliers, a squadron of the 14th Hussars, 63rd, 64th and 73rd Batteries Royal Field Artillery. Fifth Division, commanded by Lt.-Genl. Sir Charles Warren: 10th Brigade (Maj.-Genl. Coke, 2nd Dorset Regiment, 2nd Middlesex Regiment. The 11th Brigade, commanded by Maj.-Genl. Woodgate: 2nd King's Royal Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Lancashire Fusilliers, 1st Lancashire Regiment, 1st York and Lanccashire Regiment, 19th, 20th and 28th Batteries Royal Field Artillery. Corps troops: 2nd Royal Dublin Fusilliers, 2nd Somerset Light Infantry, 61st Battery (Howitzers), Natal Battery with 9 pounders, Battery of six Royal Navy 12 pounders, 4th Mountain Battery, 4.7 inch Royal Navy guns. On the 11th they marched westward to cross the Little Tugela and take up position in front of Potgieter's Ferry. However their march was easily visible to the Boers, and so slow (due in part to the massive baggage trains necessary to British officers at the time – Warren's included a cast iron bathroom and well-equipped kitchen) that by the time they arrived at the Tugela, the Boers had entrenched a new position covering it. On the 18th British mounted troops under the Earl of Dundonald enterprisingly reached the extreme Boer right flank, from where there was little to stop them riding to Ladysmith, but Warren recalled them to guard the force's baggage. Once all his force had crossed the river, Warren sent part of the 2nd Division under Lieutenant-General Francis Clery against the Boer right flank positions on a plateau named Tabanyama. The Boers had once again entrenched a new position on the reverse slopes of the plateau, and Clery's attack made no progress. Meanwhile, the secondary British attack by Lyttelton at Potgieter's Drift had yet to commence in full. Battle Spioen Kop, just northeast of Warren's force, was the largest hill in the region, being over in height (relative height from its base). It lay almost exactly at the centre of the Boer line. If the British could capture this position and bring artillery to the hill then they would command the flanks of the surrounding Boer positions. On the night of 23 January, Warren sent the