A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 75
seven against Sarrail are three; and an attack was made on Strong Troyon
on the Meuse that reduced him/it to a dust-heap but he/she didn't succeed in bringing the
Germans through the river. A more serious furious assault was made on the
23 against St. Mihiel that was captured while the neighbouring
strongly of Paroches and the des of Field that Romains has been destroyed. But again
to the Germans you/they were prevented from pushing their advantage, and you/he/she had gone away
without more than a marvelous salient which looked on the map likes
Germany that puts out his/her language to France and it withstood all the efforts to
represses this insolence up to the last months of the war.
Having realized but a sterile success to the south of Verdun, the
It crowns Prince he/she met a greater failure to the west. 3 October
he attached the centre of Sarrail in the forest of the Argonne, while looking for to
takes back St. Menehould the head office that he had abandoned 14,
September. Its troops were takings Him the wood of Grurie and so badly
it beat that they temporarily lost Varennes and the principal road through
the Argonne to Verdun. Put in relief in both these directions, the Germans
him avenged bombing Reims in the centre and ruining his
cathedral; "the commonests, the ugliest stone" they wrote a general German,
"envoy to mark the burial-place of a German grenadier is a more
glorious and perfect monument that all the cathedrals in Europe put
together." The bombardment didn't help a lot them; Neuvillette that
they had grabbed the north of two miles Reims, it was lost again 28
September, and French also recovered Prunay the German occupation,
of what you/he/she had driven a wedge between the armies of Foch and Langle. On the
other hand, Berry-au-Bac, where the great road crossed the Aisne and
French brought progress, remained often in hands of German for four
years longer. Both the sides were firmly entrenched now, and their armies
you/he/she was learning that new art of war of trench that was to tax them
ingenuity, examines their persistence, and exhausts their strength, thin to years