One can imagine the joy of the Belgians in performing this task!"[103] [Footnote 103: "Unser Vormarsch bis zur Marne" ("Our advance to the Marne"), by a Saxon officer, p. 22.]

One can imagine the joy of the Belgians in performing this task!"[103] [Footnote 103: "Unser Vormarsch bis zur Marne" ("Our advance to the Marne"), by a Saxon officer, p. 22.]

Nor was this the only aspect from which the campaign in German East Africa appealed to those of us who had taken part in the advance from the Marne to the Aisne in September, 1914.

Let's seethere was the Marne, the Aisne, the Somme, Verdun..."

The river Garonne separates the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine separate them from the Belgae.

If angels led horses by the bridle at the Marne (as a pious legend tells), at Versailles the Devil had his muzzled oxen treading out the corn.

No other military document has so nearly that ring as Marshal Foch's immortal Marne despatch (written only a few weeks later): "My centre is broken, my right wing is wavering, the situation is favorable and I am about to attack.

At the same time as the "Miracle of the Marne" another, less famous but almost as vital to France, was being silently performed at the other end of her dominions.

We were swinging back now, toward Boulogne, and were scheduled to sleep that night at Amiens which the Germans held for a few days, during their first rush toward Paris, before the Marne, but did not have time to destroy.

The dilatory train took seventy minutes, dawdling along the banks of the notorious Marne.

We were now in a large rolling plain that sloped gradually behind us southwards towards the Marne.

Beneath it rushes the Marne and the river sings in triumph, as it passes, that it is carrying away the soil that has been desecrated by the steps of the invader, and that day by day it is washing clean the land of France.

Certainly in the fields of the Marne there is not only the harvest of bread; there is also springing up the harvest of security and peace.

" Looking on the crosses on the battlefield of the Marne, I realised to the fullest extent the sacrifices, borne with such bravery, of the women of France.

After the battle of the Marne they had been sent to intercept the enemy on the side of Flanders.

Compare his amiable gossip in early Victorian phrases with the story of the same battle by Percival Phillips; with the descriptions of the fall of Antwerp by Arthur Ruhl, and the retreat to the Marne by Robert Dunn.

He set out in pursuit of the Germans, came up with them on the 10th of October, 1575, at Port-a-Binson, on the Marne, and ordered them to be attacked by his brother the Duke of Mayenne, whom he supported vigorously.

A compliment of the like nature was paid to the representative Prieur de la Marne,* by a volunteer, who having learned that his own brother was taken amongst the enemy, requested, by way of recommending himself to notice, a formal permission to be his executioner.

" In the Union Républicaine de la Marne, H. Bernard writes: "'Le retour des champs' is a picture of the plain of Berry at evening.

In 1877 and 1878 she exhibited in Boston, "On the Borders of the Marne" and "Peasant House in Normandy.

History will tell you how, a few hours later, Jouy-sur-Morin was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the Marne.

Our army friends with better horses soon left us in the rear, but undaunted we proceeded, finally reaching the heights that overlooked La Ferteand led into the village, Jouarre, perched on the side of the hill running towards the Marne.

EPEIUS, the contriver of the wooden horse, by means of which the Greeks entered and took possession of Troy, and who was assisted by Athena in the building of it. ÉPERNAY (18), a French town on the Marne, 20 m. NW. of Châlons; the chief emporium of the champagne district.

One of the most momentous battles of history was being fought in the West, and the Kaiser's armies were in full retreat from the Marne to the Aisne, but Berlin knew nothing of this.

In the battle of the Marne the active regiments of the Guard forming a link between the armies of von Bulow and von Hausen were dashed like spray on jagged cliffs when they surged in wave after wave against the army of Foch at Sezanne and Fere Champenoise.