[36]. See map to face p. 274.
[37]. The Flight of the Goeben, Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne.
[38]. See Official Naval History, pp. 60, 61.
[39]. At the Falklands the two British battle cruisers used up nearly three-quarters of their ammunition to sink only two weaker antagonists, using 12–inch guns against 8·8–inch. The Goeben single-handed would have had to have sunk four, using 11–inch guns against 9·2–inch.
[40]. The italics are mine.—W. S. C.
[41]. General Lanrezac—‘Le plan de Campagne Français,’ p. 110.
[42]. General von Kluck—‘The March on Paris,’ p. 38.
[43]. Committee of Imperial Defence.
[44]. The Fourth Division (the Fifth to go).
[45]. The Fourth Division (fifth in order of embarkation) arrived on the field at the beginning of the battle of Le Cateau.