The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . y of-fensives, but it must go down in liistory asone great battle, a struggle so titanic thateven the military mind almost fails to graspit. The Americans drove forward and onthe day the armistice was signed they ad-vanced into Sedan. French and British,past Mons were driving on as fast as motorlorry and horse could carry tliem to theRhine. The Belgians and British had laidsiege to Ghent and captured it and the Ger-mans were in open rout. Thousands ofsquare miles of territory had been Gennan losses i
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . y of-fensives, but it must go down in liistory asone great battle, a struggle so titanic thateven the military mind almost fails to graspit. The Americans drove forward and onthe day the armistice was signed they ad-vanced into Sedan. French and British,past Mons were driving on as fast as motorlorry and horse could carry tliem to theRhine. The Belgians and British had laidsiege to Ghent and captured it and the Ger-mans were in open rout. Thousands ofsquare miles of territory had been Gennan losses in life were had been tlieir supreme effort and livesentered not into their calculations. When tlie last shot was fired, the alliedl)attle line from the French border toSwitzerland approximately was as follows: The frontier of Holland north of Sel-zaete to Ghent to east of Audenarde toGrammont to east of Mons to east of Mau-beugue and thence east of the Franco-Belgian border to north of Rochoi. Thencethe line was along the Meuse to Mesieres to HISTORY OF THE WAR 179. J3 3O a; is c M - C ?*-| (U bo >- ?bCo O OJ .1- bo 180 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK Sedan and across the river in the region ofStenay. Then southeastward south ofMontmedy and northeast of Verdun to theMoselle near Pagny, northeast of Pont-a-Mousson. The line then paralleled the Lor-raine frontier to west of Markirch, whereit entered Alsace, whence it ran southwardto Switzerland on a line ahout twenty mileswest of the Rhine. France had been entirely cleared of theinvaders except for the narrow strip ofterritory from the Meuse to Alsace. Americans had been active in other partsof the world during 1918. With Frenchand British troops a detachment of Amer-ican bluejackets had been thrown into Rus-sia through Archangel. In the fights withthe Bolshe^ists considerable advances hadbeen made by the allied contingents up toNovember. Several notable events had occun^ed bysea. In June, German submarines madea raid on sh
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