 Adolf Schiel led the German Corps and was one of the Boer leaders at the Battle of Elandslaagte.Schiel was wounded at the battle and taken as a prisoner of war.However, the free rein given to the foreign legions was eventually curtailed after George Henri Anne-Marie Victor de Villebois-Mareuil and his small band of Frenchmen met with disaster at Boshof, and thereafter all the foreigners were placed under the direct command of General De la Rey.