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Joffre and French Halt War Office Meddling With Antwerp Plan
The article details General French's cautious withdrawal from the Aisne front and his strategic hopes tied to Russian advances in Galicia. It covers troop movements toward Pont Ste. Maxence, Foch's northern theatre leadership, and coordination with Allenby and Willcocks. The piece notes Antwerp's fall, British and French plans to regroup by mid October, and Rawlinson's orders as positions shift along the Lys and Scheldt fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aisne
Joffre
Cuiry-Housse-Oulchyle- Chateau
Pont Ste. Maxence
Compiegne
Antwerp
Galicia
East Prussia
Poland
Cracow
Nicholas
Russia
Prussia
Marne
Gough
James Willcocks
Fifteenth Lancers
Orleans
France
Ypres
Lahore
Watkins
Lille
de Maud’huy
de Castelnau
Foch
Henry Wilson
England
Staff College
Attaque
Napoleon
Hazebrouck
Fere-en-Tardenois
Poincare
British War Office
Abbeville
Oneux-Nouvion-en-Ponthieu
Breteuil
Doullens
Ile
Bethune
St. Omer
Ostend
Rawlinson
Third Corps
Spiers
Koch
Allenby
de Lisle
Aire
Kitchener
Lys
Bethune-Aire
Byng
Haig
Smith-Dorrien
Hesdin
Lille-Courtrai
Scheldt
Courtrai
Bethune-Lille-Tournai
Bois de Nieppe
Sixth Divison
Merville
Laventie-Lorgies
Tenth Army