[77] “Choses Vues à Metz,” Revue Hebdomadaire, December 18, 1915. Colonel Feyler quotes from the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin the following commentary on one of the Kaiser’s earlier appearances at the Front: “The presence of the Emperor demonstrates clearly what a development events have taken.... The Emperor would never have gone into France if those responsible had envisaged the possibility of the German Army being thrown back beyond the frontier. His presence among his troops in enemy country will not fail to produce a deep impression in Germany as well as abroad.”
[78] Quoted in Un Village Lorrain en Août—Septembre 1914. Réméréville, by C. Berlet.
[79] Lt.-Col. Thomasson, Le Revers, introduction.
[80] Professor Friedrich Meinecke, of Freiburg University, in the Frankfürter Zeitung, December 31, 1916.
INDEX
- Air Forces, German and Allied, [18], [27], [126], [140], [141], [167], [241–2]
- Aisne, German stand on the, [187–8], [192–3]
- Alsace, French advance and withdrawal in, [2], [29], [56], [212]
- Amade, General d’, [28], [35], [65], [66], [72]
- Americans urged to leave Paris, [82], [260]
- Amiens occupied by Von Kluck, [72], [80]
- Antwerp, [40], [44], [88], [105]
- Ardennes, Belgian, French offensive into, [24], [31–3], [36]
- Armaments, German and Allied compared, [14], [215]
- Artillery, German and French, [17], [18], [215];
- at Namur and Maubeuge, [40], [257];
- in the battle of the Marne, [104], [126], [128], [146], [180], [201], [210]
- Battlefield described, [106–9], [113–4], [143–4], [170–1], [203–7]
- Bavarian Corps, Prince Ruprecht and, [30], [56], [61–3], [87], [197–213]
- Belgium, the surprise in, [12–13], [21], [26–7], [34], [36], [38], [41], [45], [49], [54], [215], [247–51]
- Belgium’s contribution, [15], [27], [32], [37–41], [43–4]
- Berthaut, General, defends the French Staff, [245–6]
- Bloch, Jean de, forecasts of, [19], [242–4]
- Briey coalfield, [33], [248], [249]
- British Expeditionary Force, [34–44], [65–9], [80–1], [99], [118–26];
- advance to the Marne begun, [123];
- the Marne crossed, [131], [140–1];
- a determining factor, [185], [188–9], [224–5];
- M. Hanotaux’ criticisms, [253–5], [259];
- General Bonnal’s criticism, [265–6]
- Bülow, General von, [32], [36–43], [66], [68–9], [81], [85], [100];
- compromised by Von Kluck’s retreat, [129], [134], [135–7];
- attack upon the French centre, [135], [142], [146–64];
- disorder and retreat, [165–8], [190–3]
- Castelnau, General de, [27], [29–31], [62–3], [71], [104], [197–213], [248]
- Cateau, Le, battle of, [1], [65–6], [68]
- Cavalry, rôle of the, [16], [27], [66], [67], [104], [125], [134], [192–3], [264]
- Châlons reoccupied, [193]
- Charleroi, battle of, [37–43]
- Charmes, Gap of, defence of, [31], [56], [61–3]
- Château-Thierry reoccupied, [141]
- Command, unity of, [25], [40], [216]
- Concentration, first French, and re-grouping, [27–8], [251]
- Coulommiers occupied by the British, [124]
- Couronné, Grand, of Nancy, defence of, [63], [199], [205–12], [228–9], [269]
- Crown Prince, the Imperial, [32–3], [63–4], [70–1], [89], [103], [169–72], [178–82], [195]
- Dubail, General, [27], [29], [30–1], [62–3], [104], [197–8], [200], [203]
- Eastern defences, French, [12], [31], [44], [56], [61–4], [89–90], [170], [197], [229]
- Emperor, the German, [84], [205], [209], [269]
- Espérey, General Franchet d’, [37], [40–1], [100], [122];
- advance to the Marne begun, [137];
- Marne crossed, [141–2];
- helps Foch, [139], [142], [156];
- a determining factor in the victory, [189–91];
- on the Aisne, [193]
- Fère Champènoise lost, [157];
- reoccupied, [167]
- Foch, General, his teaching, [22], [24], [50], [160], [202];
- at head of 20th Corps, [30], [62];
- of 9th Army, [61], [69–70], [101], [138];
- battle of St. Gond, [142–54];
- the centre broken, [155–64];
- projected manœuvre and German retreat, [161–2], [165–8], [190], [193], [268]
- Forces, German and Allied, compared, [15–16], [30], [32–3], [41], [65];
- on eve of the battle of the Marne, [97–105], [137], [144–5], [169], [171–2], [176], [177–8], [198–201], [215–6], [240–1], [255]
- Fortifications, modern, function of, [21], [229], [245]
- French, Sir John, [18], [32], [35], [36], [39–43], [66–7], [69], [72], [73];
- communications with Gallieni and Joffre, [93–4], [121–3];
- battle order, [111];
- farthest south, [119], [121];
- the pursuit, [188];
- criticisms of, [253–6], [258], [265–6]
- Gallieni, General, [47], [49], [77–9], [81], [83], [90], [133];
- order to 6th Army on September [4], [92–3];
- communications with Joffre and French, [93–4];
- battle of the Ourcq;
- his precipitancy, [116–7], [121–3], [134], [224];
- Generals Cherfils and Bonnal on, [262]
- Gaps in German and Allied lines, [69], [85], [111], [136–7], [145], [166], [189], [192–3], [225–6]
- Generals removed, French, [20], [49], [52], [245];
- German, [83], [233]
- Gond, St., marshes of, [143] et seq., [191], [226]
- Guise, battle of, [68–9]
- Haig, General Sir D., [37], [64], [66], [99], [141], [193]
- Hanotaux, M., controverted, [41–3], [252–5]
- Hausen, General von, and the Saxon Corps, [32–3], [35], [38–41], [69], [71], [101], [135], [145], [155–9], [165–6], [171], [172], [175], [191], [193]
- Heeringen, General von, [30], [61–3], [192], [197], [199], [200], [203–4]
- Humbert, General, at Mondemont, [149], [152–4]
- Italian Frontier, [15], [25], [28]
- Joffre, General, moves 5th Army and B.E.F. to Sambre (August 16), [35–6], [42];
- “most unexpected” news, [41];
- career and character, [46–53];
- second new plan of campaign, [54–61];
- tactical lessons, [58];
- watches eastern frontier, [62], [64], [197];
- forms 6th Army, [65];
- helps the B.E.F., [65–8];
- forms 9th Army, [70];
- extends the retreat, [73–5];
- orders for general offensive, [74–5], [93–7], [111], [121];
- M. Millerand on, [77];
- gains and superiority of forces, [104–5];
- and Gallieni’s precipitancy, [116], [119], [121–3];
- and the decisive movement between Kluck and Bülow, [135], [189];
- on the victory, [195–6];
- the author of the victory, [218–29], [233];
- before Commission of Inquiry, [249];
- General Lanrezac on, [256];
- M. Messimy on, [257]
- Kitchener, Lord, and Field-Marshal French, [69], [258], [259]
- Kluck, General von, [32], [38–44], [66–9], [72–3], [79] et seq., [97];
- withdraws Corps across Marne against Maunoury, [118], [122–4];
- his farthest south positions, [119–120];
- results of retreat, [135–7], [141], [185];
- reaches the Aisne, [187];
- his two fatal movements, [220–2];
- Kluck and Bülow, [261]
- Landwehr and Ersatz employed on front, [15–16], [128], [199]
- Langle de Cary, General de, [28], [32–3], [48], [70], [102], [169–75], [193]
- Lanrezac, General, [27], [32], [35–43], [49], [67–8], [250], [255–6], [258]
- Launois, battle of, [70]
- Lille, fortress of, [34], [249], [252]
- Longwy, siege of, [33–4], [44]
- Lorraine, first French offensive in, [29–31]
- Machine guns, [18], [58], [115], [117], [253]
- Maud’huy, General, [30], [100], [138], [140], [193]
- Mangin, General, [37], [100], [138]
- Maps, German, evidence of the, [240]
- Maubeuge, [34], [44], [87], [105], [252], [256–7]
- Maunoury, General, [32], [63–5], [72–3], [77], [80–1], [85], [93], [97], [116], [122], [124], [126–30], [132–4], [184–8], [248]
- Michel, General, and the French Staff, [47], [49], [248]
- Mondemont, [143–4], [148–54]
- Mons, battle of, [37–43], [253–6]
- Montmirail reoccupied, [140]
- Morhange–Sarrebourg, battle of, [30–1]
- Namur, siege and fall of, [27], [38], [40]
- Nancy bombarded, [211]
- Nivelle, Colonel, [127]
- Offences, German, against rules of war, [80], [117], [124], [192], [194–5], [211], [212–3], [267]
- Offensive, French doctrine of the, [21–24], [58], [201–2], [216], [218], [245–7], [251]
- — from the Somme–Laon–Craonne, proposed, [58–60], [65], [71]
- Ourcq, battle of the, [114–8], [126–35], [184–7]
- Paris, the defence of, [55], [73], [76–9], [259–60];
- the German dilemma, [82–8], [109], [221]
- Pau, General, [29], [47], [48], [198], [248]
- Percin, General, [248], [252]
- Petain, General, [100], [138]
- Plans of campaign:
- the German, [10–14];
- disturbed after Guise, [68–9];
- the dilemma of Paris–Verdun, [84–91], [109–10], [214] et seq., [239–40];
- the French, [28–9], [31], [36], [49–50], [54–61], [73–5], [88–9], [105], [110], [216] et seq.
- Proyart, action at, [68]
- Railways, efficiency of French, [15], [57], [241]
- Reserves, German and Allied, [16], [21], [198–9], [245]
- Retreat, the long, scenes on, [1–9], [72–3], [78], [237–8];
- necessity of, [54–5];
- advantages of, [57];
- prolonged, [72–4];
- end of, [81], [109], [119];
- general German, ordered September [9], [185]
- Revigny lost, [179];
- recovered, [194]
- Rheims reoccupied and bombarded, [192]
- Russian victories, influence of, [44], [75], [87]
- Sambre, German victory on the, [36–43]
- Sarrail, General, [48], [89], [103], [169–72], [175–82], [195]
- Sermaize, destruction of, [194]
- Smith-Dorrien, General, [38], [64], [66], [99], [141]
- Taxi-cabs and the battle of the Ourcq, [130–1]
- Toul, German advance toward, [208]
- Trenches:
- German superiority, [18], [31], [33], [35], [58], [114], [217], [253];
- Field-Marshal French on, [18], [244];
- Castelnau’s defences, [201–2]
- Troyon, Fort, defence of, [180–3]
- Verdun, [32], [56], [71], [74], [89], [108], [169–71], [176–82], [195], [221]
- Vosges, fighting in the, [203–4]
- War Council, French Higher, [47–51]
- “Wireless,” German, picked up, [134]
- Würtemberg, Duke Albrecht of, [32], [70], [102], [169–75], [193]
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