The Battle of the Marne

INDEX

• Air Forces, German and Allied, 18, 27, 126, 140, 141, 167, 241–2
• Aisne, German stand on the, 187–8, 192–3
• Alsace, French advance and withdrawal in, 2, 29, 56, 212
• Amade, General d’, 28, 35, 65, 66, 72
• Americans urged to leave Paris, 82, 260
• Amiens occupied by Von Kluck, 72, 80
• Antwerp, 40, 44, 88, 105
• Ardennes, Belgian, French offensive into, 24, 31–3, 36
• Armaments, German and Allied compared, 14, 215
• Artillery, German and French, 17, 18, 215;
• at Namur and Maubeuge, 40, 257;
• in the battle of the Marne, 104, 126, 128, 146, 180, 201, 210
• Battlefield described, 106–9, 113–4, 143–4, 170–1, 203–7
• Bavarian Corps, Prince Ruprecht and, 30, 56, 61–3, 87, 197–213
• Belgium, the surprise in, 12–13, 21, 26–7, 34, 36, 38, 41, 45, 49, 54, 215, 247–51
• Belgium’s contribution, 15, 27, 32, 37–41, 43–4
• Berthaut, General, defends the French Staff, 245–6
• Bloch, Jean de, forecasts of, 19, 242–4
• Briey coalfield, 33, 248, 249
• British Expeditionary Force, 34–44, 65–9, 80–1, 99, 118–26;
• advance to the Marne begun, 123;
• the Marne crossed, 131, 140–1;
• a determining factor, 185, 188–9, 224–5;
• M. Hanotaux’ criticisms, 253–5, 259;
• General Bonnal’s criticism, 265–6
• Bülow, General von, 32, 36–43, 66, 68–9, 81, 85, 100;
• compromised by Von Kluck’s retreat, 129, 134, 135–7;
• attack upon the French centre, 135, 142, 146–64;
• disorder and retreat, 165–8, 190–3
• Castelnau, General de, 27, 29–31, 62–3, 71, 104, 197–213, 248
• Cateau, Le, battle of, 1, 65–6, 68
• Cavalry, rôle of the, 16, 27, 66, 67, 104, 125, 134, 192–3, 264
• Châlons reoccupied, 193
• Charleroi, battle of, 37–43
• Charmes, Gap of, defence of, 31, 56, 61–3
• Château-Thierry reoccupied, 141
• Command, unity of, 25, 40, 216
• Concentration, first French, and re-grouping, 27–8, 251
• Coulommiers occupied by the British, 124
• Couronné, Grand, of Nancy, defence of, 63, 199, 205–12, 228–9, 269
• Crown Prince, the Imperial, 32–3, 63–4, 70–1, 89, 103, 169–72, 178–82, 195
• Dubail, General, 27, 29, 30–1, 62–3, 104, 197–8, 200, 203
• Eastern defences, French, 12, 31, 44, 56, 61–4, 89–90, 170, 197, 229
• Emperor, the German, 84, 205, 209, 269
• Espérey, General Franchet d’, 37, 40–1, 100, 122;
• advance to the Marne begun, 137;
• Marne crossed, 141–2;
• helps Foch, 139, 142, 156;
• a determining factor in the victory, 189–91;
• on the Aisne, 193
• Fère Champènoise lost, 157;
• reoccupied, 167
• Foch, General, his teaching, 22, 24, 50, 160, 202;
• at head of 20th Corps, 30, 62;
• of 9th Army, 61, 69–70, 101, 138;
• battle of St. Gond, 142–54;
• the centre broken, 155–64;
• projected manœuvre and German retreat, 161–2, 165–8, 190, 193, 268
• Forces, German and Allied, compared, 15–16, 30, 32–3, 41, 65;
• on eve of the battle of the Marne, 97–105, 137, 144–5, 169, 171–2, 176, 177–8, 198–201, 215–6, 240–1, 255
• Fortifications, modern, function of, 21, 229, 245
• French, Sir John, 18, 32, 35, 36, 39–43, 66–7, 69, 72, 73;
• communications with Gallieni and Joffre, 93–4, 121–3;
• battle order, 111;
• farthest south, 119, 121;
• the pursuit, 188;
• criticisms of, 253–6, 258, 265–6
• Gallieni, General, 47, 49, 77–9, 81, 83, 90, 133;
• order to 6th Army on September 4, 92–3;
• communications with Joffre and French, 93–4;
• battle of the Ourcq;
• his precipitancy, 116–7, 121–3, 134, 224;
• Generals Cherfils and Bonnal on, 262
• Gaps in German and Allied lines, 69, 85, 111, 136–7, 145, 166, 189, 192–3, 225–6
• Generals removed, French, 20, 49, 52, 245;
• German, 83, 233
• Gond, St., marshes of, 143 et seq., 191, 226
• Guise, battle of, 68–9
• Haig, General Sir D., 37, 64, 66, 99, 141, 193
• Hanotaux, M., controverted, 41–3, 252–5
• Hausen, General von, and the Saxon Corps, 32–3, 35, 38–41, 69, 71, 101, 135, 145, 155–9, 165–6, 171, 172, 175, 191, 193
• Heeringen, General von, 30, 61–3, 192, 197, 199, 200, 203–4
• Humbert, General, at Mondemont, 149, 152–4
• Italian Frontier, 15, 25, 28
• Joffre, General, moves 5th Army and B.E.F. to Sambre (August 16), 35–6, 42;
• “most unexpected” news, 41;
• career and character, 46–53;
• second new plan of campaign, 54–61;
• tactical lessons, 58;
• watches eastern frontier, 62, 64, 197;
• forms 6th Army, 65;
• helps the B.E.F., 65–8;
• forms 9th Army, 70;
• extends the retreat, 73–5;
• orders for general offensive, 74–5, 93–7, 111, 121;
• M. Millerand on, 77;
• gains and superiority of forces, 104–5;
• and Gallieni’s precipitancy, 116, 119, 121–3;
• and the decisive movement between Kluck and Bülow, 135, 189;
• on the victory, 195–6;
• the author of the victory, 218–29, 233;
• before Commission of Inquiry, 249;
• General Lanrezac on, 256;
• M. Messimy on, 257
• Kitchener, Lord, and Field-Marshal French, 69, 258, 259
• Kluck, General von, 32, 38–44, 66–9, 72–3, 79 et seq., 97;
• withdraws Corps across Marne against Maunoury, 118, 122–4;
• his farthest south positions, 119–120;
• results of retreat, 135–7, 141, 185;
• reaches the Aisne, 187;
• his two fatal movements, 220–2;
• Kluck and Bülow, 261
• Landwehr and Ersatz employed on front, 15–16, 128, 199
• Langle de Cary, General de, 28, 32–3, 48, 70, 102, 169–75, 193
• Lanrezac, General, 27, 32, 35–43, 49, 67–8, 250, 255–6, 258
• Launois, battle of, 70
• Lille, fortress of, 34, 249, 252
• Longwy, siege of, 33–4, 44
• Lorraine, first French offensive in, 29–31
• Machine guns, 18, 58, 115, 117, 253
• Maud’huy, General, 30, 100, 138, 140, 193
• Mangin, General, 37, 100, 138
• Maps, German, evidence of the, 240
• Maubeuge, 34, 44, 87, 105, 252, 256–7
• Maunoury, General, 32, 63–5, 72–3, 77, 80–1, 85, 93, 97, 116, 122, 124, 126–30, 132–4, 184–8, 248
• Michel, General, and the French Staff, 47, 49, 248
• Mondemont, 143–4, 148–54
• Mons, battle of, 37–43, 253–6
• Montmirail reoccupied, 140
• Morhange–Sarrebourg, battle of, 30–1
• Namur, siege and fall of, 27, 38, 40
• Nancy bombarded, 211
• Nivelle, Colonel, 127
• Offences, German, against rules of war, 80, 117, 124, 192, 194–5, 211, 212–3, 267
• Offensive, French doctrine of the, 21–24, 58, 201–2, 216, 218, 245–7, 251
• — from the Somme–Laon–Craonne, proposed, 58–60, 65, 71
• Ourcq, battle of the, 114–8, 126–35, 184–7
• Paris, the defence of, 55, 73, 76–9, 259–60;
• the German dilemma, 82–8, 109, 221
• Pau, General, 29, 47, 48, 198, 248
• Percin, General, 248, 252
• Petain, General, 100, 138
• Plans of campaign:
• the German, 10–14;
• disturbed after Guise, 68–9;
• the dilemma of Paris–Verdun, 84–91, 109–10, 214 et seq., 239–40;
• the French, 28–9, 31, 36, 49–50, 54–61, 73–5, 88–9, 105, 110, 216 et seq.
• Proyart, action at, 68
• Railways, efficiency of French, 15, 57, 241
• Reserves, German and Allied, 16, 21, 198–9, 245
• Retreat, the long, scenes on, 1–9, 72–3, 78, 237–8;
• necessity of, 54–5;
• advantages of, 57;
• prolonged, 72–4;
• end of, 81, 109, 119;
• general German, ordered September 9, 185
• Revigny lost, 179;
• recovered, 194
• Rheims reoccupied and bombarded, 192
• Russian victories, influence of, 44, 75, 87
• Sambre, German victory on the, 36–43
• Sarrail, General, 48, 89, 103, 169–72, 175–82, 195
• Sermaize, destruction of, 194
• Smith-Dorrien, General, 38, 64, 66, 99, 141
• Taxi-cabs and the battle of the Ourcq, 130–1
• Toul, German advance toward, 208
• Trenches:
• German superiority, 18, 31, 33, 35, 58, 114, 217, 253;
• Field-Marshal French on, 18, 244;
• Castelnau’s defences, 201–2
• Troyon, Fort, defence of, 180–3
• Verdun, 32, 56, 71, 74, 89, 108, 169–71, 176–82, 195, 221
• Vosges, fighting in the, 203–4
• War Council, French Higher, 47–51
• “Wireless,” German, picked up, 134
• Würtemberg, Duke Albrecht of, 32, 70, 102, 169–75, 193