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On the
evening of this day, January 20th, the British had gained some
miles of ground, and the total losses had been about three hundred
killed and wounded. The troops were in good heart, and all promised
well for the future. Again the men lay where they had fought, and
again the dawn heard the crash of the great guns and the rattle of
the musketry.
The operations of this day began with a sustained cannonade from
the field batteries and 61st Howitzer Battery, which was as
fiercely answered by the enemy. About eleven the infantry began to
go forward with an advance which would have astonished the
martinets of Aldershot, an irregular fringe of crawlers, wrigglers,
writhers, crouchers, all cool and deliberate, giving away no points
in this grim game of death. Where now were the officers with their
distinctive dresses and flashing swords, where the valiant rushes
over the open, where the men who were too proud to lie down?--the
tactics of three months ago seemed as obsolete as those of the
Middle Ages.


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