2
DITIONARY FORCE ................. 16
III--THE SAILING OF THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE .......... 31
IV--THE RETREAT FROM MONS ........................... 56
V--FURTHER COURSE OF THE RETREAT ................... 81
VI--THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE ........................ 113
VII--THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE AND ITS PROGRESS UP TO SEPTEMBER 30TH ........................... 142
VIII--THE SIEGE AND FALL OF ANTWERP .................. 175
IX--THE LAST DAYS OF THE BRITISH OPERATIONS ON THE AISNE--THE NORTHERN MOVE ................ 193
X--THE BATTLE OF YPRES--FIRST PHASE, OCTOBER 15TH TO OCTOBER 26TH ........................... 214
XI--THE BATTLE OF YPRES--SECOND PHASE, OCTOBER 27TH TO OCTOBER 31ST ................... 237
XII--THE BATTLE OF YPRES--THIRD PHASE, NOVEMBER 1ST TO NOVEMBER 10TH ........................... 257
XIII--THE BATTLE OF YPRES--FOURTH AND FINAL PHASE, NOVEMBER 11TH TO THE END OF THE BATTLE ..................................... 277
XIV--THE ENTRY OF THE TERRITORIAL ARMY .............. 287
XV--A REVIEW OF THE ALLIED PLANS IN THE WEST AT THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES ...... 301
XVI--THE OPERATIONS OF DECEMBER 14TH-19TH, 1914 ..... 320
XVII--THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1914 ..................... 332
XVIII--AMMUNITION ..................................... 347
INDEX ................................................. 363
LIST OF MAPS.
1. GENERAL MAP OF NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
2. MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE RETREAT FROM MONS AND BATTLES OF THE MARNE AND THE AISNE.
3. MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE CAMPAIGN IN BELGIUM, 1914.
PREFACE
Le Maréchal FRENCH commandait en Chef l'Armée Britannique au début de la Guerre.
Comme on le sait, les allemands ont cherché en 1914 à profiter de leur supériorité numérique et de l'écrasante puissance de leur armement, pour mettre hors de cause les Armées Alli&eac