A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 29

Kluck could not revolve on the left. None of these conditions it was
carried out:  Von Kluck had grabbed Tournai and you/he/she had captured the whole one of the
French Territorial brigade that tried to defend him/it, while the
Meuse had been forced and the three French armies were in full
retreat. A battle on the line of Maubeuge-Bry would invite a
encirclement from which the English had escaped as soon as to Mons, and
the retreat was continued reluctantly to her Cateau. Marching, the
Before Army Body along the east of the Forest of Mormal and the Secondo
along the west, our troops reached twilight the 25 a line
racing from Maroilles through Landrecies and her Cateau to
Serainvilliers Cambrai nearby;  but they had the small rest. Approximately 10 in the evening,
between rain and the obscurity, the Germans got in Landrecies. In the fierce one
struggle of hand-to-hand that achieved, the individual initiative of
our men gave them the advantage, and the Germans were driven out of
the Grenadier's separations, Coldstream and 1 Irish Watches. Them
it was simultaneously rejected to Maroilles with some French assistance;
but the spuntar of the day saw a bystander and more powerful attack delivered on her
Cateau. Mr. John French had said Smith-Dorrien the night before that
he was risking a second Sedan from a stand. But Smith-Dorrien the thought him
it didn't have choice. For eight hours the 26 his/her men, strengthened from
The snow's Division, but it overcame in number in guns within almost four to one, it held
them really, until another wrapping you/he/she was threatened by Von Kluck.
Fortunately the struggle had apparently exhausted the Germans;
The cavalry of Sordet had ridden through Smith-Dorrien the forehead and favorite
his went away from wrapping;  and the rests of the three divisions
it was able to withdraw. The retreat was harrowing enough, and the 1
Gordons, while failing their way in the dark, you fall in the hands of the
The Germans and it was all killed ones, wounded or taken imprisoned. But Her
Cateau had taken the sting of the German search, and touch was to