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Besides, in the sum
total of this war the fall of La Buissiere hardly counts. You might say
it represents a semicolon in the story of the campaign. Probably no
future historian will give it so much as a paragraph. In our own Civil
War it would have been worth a page in the records anyway. Here upward
of three hundred men on both sides were killed and wounded, and as many
more Frenchmen were captured; and the town, when taken, gave the winners
the control of the river Sambre for many miles east and west. Here,
also, was a German charge with bayonets up a steep and well-defended
height; and after that a hand-to-hand melee with the French defenders on
the poll of the hill.
But this war is so big a thing, as wars go, that an engagement of this
size is likely to be forgotten in a day or a week. Yet, I warrant you,
the people of La Buissiere will not forget it. Nor shall we forget it
who came that way in the early afternoon of a flawless summer day. Let
me try to recreate La Buissiere for you, reader.


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