A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 71

traditions are not a benediction not mixing in the art of war.


                              I CAPITULATE V

                    ESTABLISHING THE WESTERN FOREHEAD
                                   
                       The Battles Of The Aisne 

In the whole war it was an undercurrent of the criticism against the
dispersion of British strengths and the dissipation of British energy, and
his briefest history cannot avoid a certain amount of
colloquialism. The reason, if not the justification, is the same in
both the cases;  for happily or unhappily the British empire is sprinkled
everything on the globe, and unless colonies would be abandoned to hostile
attacks and the natural strengths of the native dissatisfactions, they had to be
defended at least partly from British troops. Fortunately the assignment
in demand but a fraction of the military strength of which Germany had need
tender Alsace-Lorraine in duration of the peace and greed in front of the end
Great Britain received from his/her dominoes fourfold the help in Europe
what she had to lend them foreign. The reunion to the British flag was
to us one of the more inspirer, and to the Germans one of the more anymore
demolishing, signs in the war;  but he/she took us time to bear his/her fruits,
and the cause of the civilization owed in the meantime to count on the courage
of armies French and the British fight of strengths and numerically weak on
the Marne and on the Aisne.

The human eye is ever craving to perforate the veil of the future but it
it was well perhaps as that men could not foresee, as they drove the Allies
the Germans through the lowest courses of the Aisne, how much time that river
you/he/she would have reddened with the blood of the strengths that you/they contend. Them
he/she thought that the tide of invasion would have receded as fast as it had
advanced, and it was only as the days of German resistance lengthened
in weeks and the weeks in months of the longest battle in
history that furnishes of personnel and armies and peoples they started to understand the terrible one