 The Jameson armed column first encountered resistance very early on 1 January when there was a very brief exchange of fire with a Boer outpost.Around noon the Jameson armed column was around twenty miles further on, at Krugersdorp, where a small force of Boer soldiers had blocked the road to Johannesburg and dug in and prepared defensive positions.Jameson's force spent some hours exchanging fire with the Boers, losing several men and many horses in the skirmish.