se sent to Manoury
the Fourth Army Corps, recruited from the Third Army, though an almost
entire division of it was called for by the British to safeguard the
junction of forces.

"The day of September 8 turned out the most arduous for Manoury; the
Germans, making attacks of extreme violence, won some success. They
occupied Betz, Thury-en-Vallois and Nanteuil-le-Haudouin. Von Kluck
attacked all his force on the right, and it was at that time he who
threatened Manoury with an encircling movement. The Fourth French Army
Corps, sent forward at full speed by General Joffre and arriving at the
spot, had the order to allow itself to be killed to the last man, but to
maintain its ground. It maintained it. It succeeded toward evening in
checking the advance of the Germans. In a brilliant action the army of
Manoury took three standards. It rallied the main body of its forces on
the left and prepared for a new attack.

"During this time the British army, following on the retreat of part of
the forces of Von Kluck, was able to make headway toward the north. It
was the same with the Fifth French Army. The British, leaving behind it
on September 6 the Rosoy--Lagny line, reached in the evening the south
bank of the Great Morin. On the 7th and 8th they continued their march;
on the 9th they debouched to the north of the Marne below Chateau
Thierry, flanking the German forces which on that day were opposing the
army of Manoury. It was then that the German forces began to retreat,
while the British army, pursuing the enemy, took seven cannon and many
prisoners and reached the Aisne between Soissons and Longueval. The
British army continued till before Coulommiers, and after a brilliant
struggle forced the passage of the Little Morin. The Fifth French Army
under General Franchet d'Esperey made the same advance. It drove back
the three active army corps of the Germans and the reserve corps that it
found facing it. On September 7 it pressed forward to the
Courtacon--Cerneux--Monceaux--les--Provins--Courgivaux--Esternay line.
During the days that followed it reached and crossed the Marne,
capturing in fierce combats some howitzers and machine guns.

"General Foch showed admirable sang-froid and energy. At the most
critical moment, the decisive hour of the battle, he accomplished a
magnificent maneuver, which is known under the name of the _maneuver of
Fere Champenoise_. Foch noted a rift between the German army of Von
Buelow and that of