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Gentlemen, We Will Stand and Fight - Le Cateau 1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Gentlemen, We Will Stand and Fight - Le Cateau 1914 (Hardcover, New edition)
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At Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, the commanders of the Second Corps
of the British Expeditionary Force elected to fight the German
First Army and, although outnumbered three to one, delivered such a
smashing blow to the German invaders that the whole of the BEF was
able to continue the Retreat to Compiegne without being seriously
threatened. Although the British suffered 1,200 of their men and
officers killed, and were forced to leave their dead and many of
their wounded on the battlefield, as well as thirty-six of their
field guns, they inflicted losses on von Kluck's army of nearly
9,000. Yet the architect of this feat of arms, Second Corps
commander Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, was sacked soon afterward,
while First Corps commander Sir Douglas Haig, who had performed far
less impressively, took command of the whole BEF. Antony Bird
describes the battle, its aftermath and he examines the men, the
weapons and the tactics that made this feat of arms possible.
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