A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 23

the Germans' box-pushes toward Spincourt and Blamont in the
simple of Lorraine was protected;  Thann was captured, Mulhouse was
king-busy, and the Germans seemed Alsace loser as far north as
Colmar. German Lorraine seemed equally insecure, for the 18
The troops of Castelnau were in Saarburg that cuts the bar and roads among
Strassburg and Metz. However, the Germans were not prepared not:  them
Quinto Army, under the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Baviera, came down
from Metz and it fell on the French left and exposed with which was addressed
great losses in guns and prisoners the 21. It not only did the
collapse of invasion, but the Bavarians pushed through the French frontier
almost as far as Toul and occupied Lunéville, also forcing a French
withdraw from the passages of the Vosges. Pau Generale had to follow soon
suit and it retires again from Mulhouse and all but the angle of southwest
of Alsace.

The operations in Alsace and Lorraine had dismally failed to discount
the Germans' advance through Belgium or also to prevent the March
of their centre through Luxemburg and the Ardennes. At the end of
three weeks France was still in the pains of mobilization:  the
original scheme of defense along the frontier of Franco-German you/he/she had been
upsets from the German attack through Belgium;  and according to thoughts they had
been all right to Namur. The shortest line of defense after the
Germans you/he/she had broken I cross to Liège it was one racing from Antwerp to
Namur, and the shortest line is mandatory for the weakest fighter.
But the Germans were well through him when them digitarono Brussels, and
with the fall of Namur the hinge on that the defense depended of
the northern frontier of France was broken. It was almost a
abandoned it hopes that the British army was committed when taken his
puts on the left of the French northern armies to Mons to meet
for the first time since Waterloo the hit of an European of first category
strength. But for his/her value and the distraction it caused from the Russian
invasion of Prussia Est, Paris and the French armies were possibly able