A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 82

Marines and then two naval brigades of splendid but raw and sick-armed
recruits. They immediately was orders to help the Belgians to defend
their trenches along the north deposit money of the Nethe against the German
numbers and their more real hulls. The 5 and following
night that the left and centre of the defense, have been perforated, the
Germans it crossed the Nethe, and it started to assemble their howitzers on
the inside line of bastions. The 7 the exodus from the city started
from earth and he/she sprinkles, and among scenes of heartrending a quarter of a million
people strove to reach the Dutch frontier or the safety on the sea. The
Belgian and British troops did better them hold away the Germans
while the flight proceeded and the city was subject to bombardment. It
it was doubtful if some would get away, for the Germans finally had
serious fight and started on the Scheldt to cut the retreat
toward Zeebrugge and Ostend. In the narrow opening among to intrude himself/herself/themselves
German and the Dutch frontier some were forced through the seconds and
interned;  others fell in the hands of the enemy;  and less that a bystander of
the first Naval Brigade escaped to England. The 9 the bombardment
stopped, and the 10 the Germans made their formal entrance in a
abandoned city nearly. They made to sharpen their gun to the
heart of England, but as their Napoleon the learnt that was a gun
what you/he/she could only be shot by sea-power.

The most greater part of the Belgian army with the rests of the British strengths got
away to the coast through the opening over the Scheldt that Von Beseler
you/he/she had failed to closing in duration;  and it is impossible to say if the
brave efforts of the Marineses Reali and naval brigades did more to
you facilitate this escape that the extension of the retreat, caused from
their arrival, made to frustrate him/it. As an end in himself the consignment
for the relief of Antwerp a failure was;  but you/he/she was drawn
subserve a greater operation, the purpose of what you/he/she has not been yet
revealed. To the duration of his/her message they are been able to be still hopes