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.