An American first sergeant hit a British first sergeant.

Instantly a thousand men were milling.

For thirty minutes they kept at it.

Warriors reeled together and fell and rose and got it in the neck and the jaw and the eye and the nose--and all the while the British and American officers, splendidly discreet, saw none of it.

British soldiers were carried back to their streets, still fighting, bunged Yankees staggered everywhere--but not an officer saw any of it.