A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 73

offensive and considered strategy;  and the Germans themselves had occasion
during the autumn and the rest of the war to repent that the their according to
thoughts had not come before.

The battle of the Aisne started, as that of the Marne, Sunday, 13
September. The retreat of the Germans had taken them north of the river
omits to some bridgeheads, but the river was deep and its crossings
it was all commanded by fire by hidden German batteries on the
slant that rise above from the northern bank. The 6 Army of Maunoury attacked
on the left from Compiègne and the the Aigle of de of Forêt to Soissons, and
a lot of divisions were it got through. From Soissons toward east for fifteen
miles to Pont-Arcy the line of attack was contained from the British army;
the whole ones of the 4 Division got nearby through Venizel, and the most greater part of the
5 and 3 Divisions more distant east, but the Germans succeeded in
holding the bridge to Condé. The 2 Division was only partially also
succeeded in the region of Chavonne but the whole ones of 1 they got
I cross to Pont-Arcy and Bourg. Monday Maunoury pressed, sends on
the heights, capturing Autrèches and Nouvron but, as the English on
his/her right between Vregny and Vailly, he found the German positions
impregnable on the highland. The first Body of Haig was successful
more distant east;  Vendresse and Troyon were captured and the Chemin des
To dames you/they had almost come. But the 5 French army of Of Esperey could do
small impression on the highland of Craonne;  Foch is 9 it was incapable to
forces the Suippe to the east of Reims and Langle 4, while it
Occupied Souain, was above likewise kept in Champagne.

The 15 the German controattaccaronos. Maunoury was driven out of
Nouvron and Autrèches, almost the English were forced back from Vregny
to the river, and the Moroccan troops withdrew on the correct side of Haig.
There was a standstill the 16, and around 17 Maunouries it recovered the
it digs of Autrèches;  but east of Reims the 9 Army was fallen again
from the Suippe, and the Prussian Watch had captured the the Abbesse of Nogent