The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . British Capture Line of Luxurious German Dugouts in Sunken Road. 48 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Gen. Vassitch Commanded Serbian Second Army. Duke of Wurtemburg, was striking throughBelgian Luxembourg. But still further tothe right and west, a great army under vonBulow was pushing upon Namur, the otherof the two supposedly strong Belgian de-fenses. Here, at the juncture of the Meuseand Sambre rivers, a combined force ofFrench, British and Belgians awaited theonslaught. The allied line, as it then stood,had its western
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . British Capture Line of Luxurious German Dugouts in Sunken Road. 48 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK. Gen. Vassitch Commanded Serbian Second Army. Duke of Wurtemburg, was striking throughBelgian Luxembourg. But still further tothe right and west, a great army under vonBulow was pushing upon Namur, the otherof the two supposedly strong Belgian de-fenses. Here, at the juncture of the Meuseand Sambre rivers, a combined force ofFrench, British and Belgians awaited theonslaught. The allied line, as it then stood,had its western end, held by the British,resting upon Mons. Under Sir JohnFrench, the British forces, numberingbarely 70,000 men, extended to Charleroi,where it came into contact with the 120,000French in three army corps. This arrayextended to the angle of the rivers atNamur, then bent to the south where it wasextended along the Meuse by three morecorps. There were about 400,000 men inthe Allied army, opposed to wellnigh doublethat force of Germans. The effect of thissuperiority was that both flanks of the in-vading armies exteinded far beyond theflanks of the Allies. The forts of
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