The result tends to prove that those who hold that it will from now onwards be impossible ever to make such frontal attacks as those which the English made at the Alma or the French at Waterloo, are justified in their belief.

It is beyond human hardihood to face the pitiless beat of bullet and shell which comes from modern quick-firing weapons.

Had our flank not made a lodgment across the river, it is impossible that we could have carried the position.

Once more, too, it was demonstrated how powerless the best artillery is to disperse resolute and well-placed riflemen.

Of the minor points of interest there will always remain the record of the forced march of the 62nd Battery, and artillerymen will note the use of gun-pits by the Boers, which ensured that the range of their positions should never be permanently obtained.
The honours of the day upon the side of the British rested with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Yorkshire Light Infantry, the 2nd Coldstreams, and the artillery.