A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 80

the Germans themselves had equalled during him the Thirty year-old War.  It
and the other orgies were a natural expression of German militarism;  for
excessive limitation in the one direction provokes relaxation in others,
and the most narrow the obligation of martial law, the I lead the respect for
civil codes. The proverbial license of soldiery is the reaction
against their military discipline.

The second, called "the great sortie" from Antwerp, almost coincided
with the battle of the Marne. It started 9 September:  Termonde was
reoccupied, but I force him/it principal it was toward Aerschot and Louvain.
Aerschot was taken back the 9, although the fiercest struggle taken
puts to Weerde between Malines and Brussels. Kessel, only out
Louvain, the 10 was taken, but German reinforcements started
you arrive the 11 and two days later the Belgians they returned in them
you position on the Nethe, their retirement that is marked, as before from a
fresh series of the German atrocities. A third sortie incited from
representations of the command tallest French and from the impression
what the German strengths before Antwerp had been reduced, it was projected
for 26-27 September, and some fight happened to Alost and Prostitute. But
from this duration the strategy of new Germany was to job and the
"side-show" of the first phase of the war they became the principal objectives
of the second. The French army was enough sure in his/her trenches and
the way in Paris was blocked. But the approach to the harbors of Channel was
not yet closed, and Antwerp was in trip for the Belgian coast. It
it was an excellent city to ransom;  it is probable that its loss convinces the Belgians that
there was no hope for their independence;  and the historical Germans
their bethought of the description of Napoleon of Antwerp as a gun
sharpened to the heart of England. Its fall would be of the consolation for the
lack of a second Sedan and 28 September that the siege has started.

The defenses of Antwerp had been, as those of Liège and Namur, drew