Excerpt from A Military History of the War, Vol. 1: From the Declaration of War, to the Close of the Campaign, of August 1914 The author of this brief history, which attempts a description of the opening phase of the great war, was in Brussels when the Belgian capital capitulated to the Germans. Thence he followed the retreat of the Anglo French forces and saw something of the Operations on the left flank of that vast array, and was able to hear the accounts of some of the principal actors in the drama while their experiences were still fresh, besides profiting by his own experiences at the theatre of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.