They had fought and won, they had striven and toiled to the utmost capacity of manhood, and the end of it all was that they had reached the spot which they should never have left.

But their endurance could not be lost--no worthy deed is ever lost.

Like the light division, when they marched their fifty odd unbroken miles to be present at Talavera, they leave a memory and a standard behind them which is more important than success.

It is by the tradition of such sufferings and such endurance that others in other days are nerved to do the like..