INDEX

• A
• Agadir, 17
• Alaire, Captain, killed, 52
• Allies, rally of, at Verberie, 79
• —— meeting of, 133
• Alquier, orders received from, 161
• Arneke, 141
• Arras, 141
• Authée, bivouac near, 36
• —— departure from, 36
• Ave, French dragoons billeted at, 34
• —— French squadron ambushed at, 35
• —— French departure from, 35
• B
• Baron, 85, 86
• —— Château of, pillaged by Germans, 86
• Basteigne, 29, 34
• Bavarians, atrocities of, 76, 77
• Bazeille, burning of, by Germans, 1870, 17
• Beauraing, arrival of French at, 35
• —— departure of French from, 35
• —— ambush at, 35
• Belgium, welcome and hospitality of villages, 27, 28, 29
• —— re-entered by French, 96
• —— departure from, 140
• Biesmérée, bivouac at, 38
• Billancourt, infantry action near, 87
• Bonneuil-en-Valois, surprise attack by Germans at, 51, 52
• Bülow, Count von, 60
• C
• Calonne-sur-la-Lys, 96
• Cary, General Langle de, 44, 71
• Cavalry, French, equipment of, 23
• Chapin, Major, 106
• Charleroi, 39
• Chasseurs-à-cheval, charge of, 45
• Chatelin, Lieut., 39, 67, 82, 127, 129
• Chauvenet, Lieut., killed, 35
• Chocques, enemy sighted at, 90
• —— artillery action at, 91
• Clarques, return of French troops to, 112
• Clère, Lieut., 18, 123
• Compiègne, forest of, 63
• —— ambushed in, 63-5
• —— adventures in, 65-9
• Coxyde, 112
• D
• Dangel, Sergeant-Major, death of, 64
• Desonney, Lieut., 106
• Dinant, siege of, by Germans, 36
• —— arrival of French wounded from, 37
• Dragoon, funeral of a, 124-5
• E
• Epehy, arrival at, 41
• —— burning of, by Germans, 41
• Estaires, evacuation of, 93
• —— attack at, 95
• —— cemetery of, 94
• Estrée-Saint-Denis, 84, 87
• d’Estrey, General, 71
• F
• Florennes, arrival at, 37
• Foch, General, 60, 71
• —— address by, 141-3
• —— army of, 44
• Folies, 90
• Franchet, General, 71
• French, General Lord John, 71
• Fuéminville, 35
• G
• Gembloux, retreat from, 31
• —— triumphal entry into, 39
• Germans, atrocities of, 32-4, 76-7, 83-4
• —— cavalry of, 31, 34, 87
• —— flight of, 34
• —— retreat of, 43
• Gilocourt, 82, 86
• Gorgue, La, 95
• Grossain killed, 157
• H
• Hausen, 60
• Hill 70, 145
• Hougled, entry of, by French, 97
• —— infantry and artillery attacks at, 98-101
• J
• Johannes Father, quotation from, 150
• Jouillié, Major, 49, 56, 83
• L
• Lametz, Captain, 139
• Landelies, arrival at, 40
• Laperrade, 18
• Lens road, French advance towards, 146
• —— German lines carried near, 154
• —— redan blown up, 149
• Liége, arrival of French dragoons at, 31
• Lille-Arras, front of, 145
• Lombaertzyde, bombardment of, 128
• Loos, French attack at, 150-5
• —— German counter-attack at, 159
• —— preparations for attack at, 144-7
• Lubeké, 35
• Lys, bridge of, evacuated, 93
• M
• Magrin, Lieut., 18, 102, 104, 105
• Mahot, Captain, 113, 116
• Maindreville, M. de, German atrocities at château of, 83
• Marne, battle of, 43
• Maugenot, 139, 160
• —— report to, 149
• Maunoury, General, army of, 44, 47, 71
• Mazingarbe, relieved trenches at, 144
• —— divisional dressing station at, 162
• Montcalm killed, 36
• Muno, arrival of French cavalry at, 26
• N
• Nesle, infantry action near, 87
• Nieuport-Ville, road to, 113
• —— bombardment of, 114-17, 119
• —— billeted at, 116-18
• —— scenes at, 114-19
• Nœux-les-Mines, wounded sent to, 144, 163
• Noyelette, resting at, 144
• O
• Oise River, crossing of, 84
• Ostdinkerque, 113
• Outersteene, Belgian manifestations to French, 96
• P
• Paris, retreat of French cavalry towards, 41
• Parvillers, 88
• Petit, Corporal, 154
• Polignac, 18
• Poperinghe, 131
• Prussians, capture of Staff Officers, 48
• R
• Règues, Lieut., 156
• Rheims Cathedral, 14, 16
• —— departure from, 13
• —— scenes at, 20, 21, 23, 25
• Roberts, Lord, funeral of, 110-12
• Robillot, Colonel, 21, 24
• S
• Saint-Martin, bivouac at, 38
• Saint-Omer, 110
• Salverte, Captain de, 56, 68, 82, 84
• Staden, village of, fighting at, 97, 108
• Stivalet, 147-8
• T
• Tarragon, Captain de, 56, 65, 83, 85, 86, 102, 103, 104
• —— death of, 105
• Taube drops bombs, 50
• Taubes at Gembloux, 39
• Teint, 58
• Troène, fighting at, 45
• U
• Uhlans, 35, 56, 57, 62
• V
• Verberie, rally of French troops, at, 79, 80, 82
• —— scenes at, 74-84
• Vigoureux, Captain, 112, 117
• Villers-Carbonel, artillery combat at, 41
• —— in flames, 41
• Villers-Cotterets, forest of, 49-51
• —— loss of French machine-guns at, 50
• —— fighting at, 51-4
• —— in hiding in, 54-7
• —— retreat from, 57-9
• Von Kluck, General, army of, 47
• W
• Walloon district, the, 26
• Y
• Ypres, 131
• —— Cloth Hall at, 132
• —— Cathedral, at, 132
• —— scenes at, 132-3
• —— in the trenches near, 134-40
• Yser, 74, 123
• Z
• Zonnebeck, 133