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    Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War I
    Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War I
    Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War I
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    Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War I

    By John Buchan Sir Henry John Newbolt

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    THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
    A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE WAR
    THE TURN AT THE MARNE
    THE WORCESTERS AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES
    THE CANADIANS AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES
    THE TAKING OF LOOS
    DELVILLE WOOD
    THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES
    THE TANKS AT CAMBRAI
    THE SOUTH AFRICANS AT MARRIÈRES WOOD
    THE BATTLE OF THE LYS
    THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARNE
    THE BEGINNING OF THE END
    THE AUSTRALIANS AT MONT ST. QUENTIN
    THE LAST BATTLE
    THE LANDING AT GALLIPOLI
    THE DEPARTURE FROM GALLIPOLI
    THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM
    ALLENBY'S GREAT DRIVE
    THE SILENT SERVICE
    CORONEL
    THE FALKLANDS
    MYSTERY SHIPS
    JUTLAND
    THE BRITISH SUBMARINE SERVICE
    THE BRITISH SUBMARINE SERVICE (continued)
    THE MERCANTILE MARINE AND FISHING FLEETS
    ZEEBRUGGE
    BEHIND THE LINES AND AT HOME
    THE LAST DAY
    LOOKING BACKWARD
    Field-Marshal Sir John French (Earl of Ypres)
    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (Earl Haig of Bemersyde)
    Marshal Foch
    Field-Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby (Viscount Allenby of Megiddo)
    Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa)
    Admiral Sir David Beatty (Earl Beatty of the North Sea)
    Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener
    The Critical Day in the First Battle of Ypres
    The Second Battle of Ypres
    Battle of Loos: Advance to Loos and Hill 70
    Battle of the Somme: Longueval and Delville Wood
    Cambrai: the Advance of the Infantry Divisions
    The Second Battle of the Marne.
    First Stages of the last Allied Offensive
    The Landing Beaches at Gallipoli
    Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula
    Palestine: the Decisive Battle
    Battle of Coronel
    Battle of the Falkland Islands
    Battle of Jutland: Track Chart
    Zeebrugge.
    The Front on the Eve of the Allied Offensive, and on the Day of the Armistice
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 25, 2016
    ISBN9783736408920
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      Days to Remember - John Buchan Sir Henry John Newbolt

      France.

      PART II.

      THE WESTERN FRONT.

      CHAPTER IV.

      THE WORCESTERS AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES.

      The Battle of the Marne defeated the great plan of the Germans, and their next object was to hold what they had won. The line to which they had retired was open to attack on the west, as was also that of the French, and hence there came a period of rapid movement on both sides, each attempting to outflank the other. It became a race for the sea, and ended only when the entrenched lines on either side reached the Belgian coast. The enemy then attempted to break through the left of the Allied front, and to seize the Channel ports, so as to threaten the British lines of communication. He transferred large numbers of his best troops to the north; between Armentiéres and the sea he had a total of 402 battalions of infantry and an immense superiority of guns. Two hundred and sixty-seven battalions were all that the Allies could fling into the gap, and their cavalry were outnumbered by two to one.

      Germany struck at various points; but being checked at Arras and on the sea-coast, she made her main effort in the last week of October against the British Army, which held the salient east of the city of Ypres. The battle, which is known as the First Battle of Ypres, began on the 21st of the month, and the crisis came on the 29th, when General von Fabeck attacked with a storm group of specially selected regiments.

      On Saturday, the 31st October, after a furious bombardment, it seemed that the end had come. For eleven days our little army had been holding its own against impossible odds. At the point of the Salient, north of the Menin road, lay the 2nd and 1st British Divisions, and south of them the 7th Division and Byng's cavalry. The men were very weary and their ranks terribly thinned. The 7th Division had fought for nearly two days on a front of 8 miles against forces of four times their number. The desperate character of the fighting was only fully known when the losses came to be reckoned up. That division had 44 officers left out of 400, and 2,336 men out of 12,000. The 1st Brigade of the 1st Division had 8 officers left out of 153, and 500 men out of 5,000. The 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, to take one battalion, was reduced to 70 men commanded by a junior subaltern. That is the price which must be paid for fighting one against four. Major Bellenden in Old Mortality considered one to three the utmost possible odds, and never knew any one who cared to take that except old Corporal Raddlebanes. At the First Battle of Ypres the British Army would have welcomed the Major's odds as a relief.

      On that Saturday morning things had grown very desperate. The 1st and 3rd Brigades of the 1st Division were driven out of Gheluvelt, our line gave way, and soon after midday we were back among the woods towards Veldhoek. This retirement uncovered the left of the 7th Division, which was then slowly bent back towards the Klein Zillebeke ridge. The enemy was beginning to pour through the Gheluvelt gap, and at the same time pressed hard on the whole arc of the Salient. We had no reserves except an odd battalion or two and some regiments of cavalry, all of which had already been sorely tried during the past days. Sir John French sent an urgent message to General Foch for reinforcements and was refused. At the end of the battle he learned the reason. Foch had none to send, and his own losses had been greater than

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