But the tension naturally passes, and one comes back, first, to the victoryto the results of all that hard and relentless fighting, both for the British and the French forces, on this memorable battlefield north and south of the Somme.

With this burden, and wet to the skin with rain, there rose far ahead of me that historic mound, and at last I stood at its base alone, there in the midst of one of the greatest battlefields history records, soon to forget in the momentary joys of a beefsteak breakfast that man had ever done anything in this world except eat and drink.

Battlefield tactics do not exist; when a whole nation goes to ground there can be none of the "victories" of the old bookish days.

She rode by the side of her husband, who was an officer, on the battlefield; she slept in battlefield tents, and she fled from Germany to this country, for her life and property, side by side with Carl Schurz.

In all my battlefield visits in Europe I have not seen a single cemetery wall that was not loopholed.