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Rheims and the Battles for its Possession
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Transcriber's notes
Errors of punctuation and diacritics have been repaired.
Notations: =bold face text=, _italic text_.
Hyphens removed: "day[-]break" (page 32), "master[-]piece" (page 50),
"net[-]work" (page 167), "wood[-]work" (pages 72, 144, 146).
Hyphens added: "key-stones" (page 132), "pre[-]historic" (page 18),
"timber[-]work" (page 85).
The following words appear once each with and without hyphens and have
not been changed: "day[-]break", "hand[-]rail", "iron[-]work",
"stone[-]work".
Page 9: "Witry-les-Rheims" changed to "Witry-les-Reims".
Page 13: "seperate" changed to "separate" (On three separate occasions).
Page 23: "helmet" changed to "helmets" (They were supplied with helmets).
Page 55: "railling" changed to "railing" (wrought-iron railing).
Page 79 (caption): "of" added (supposed to be likenesses of).
Page 136: "roads" changed to "road" (The road turns abruptly).
Page 147: "Villers-Farnqueux" changed to "Villers-Franqueux".
Page 156: "Germas" changed to "Germans" (re-taken by the Germans).
Page 157 (caption of photo): "BÉTHANY" changed to "BÉTHENY".
Page 161: "earthern" changed to "earthen" (earthen ramparts).
Page 164 (title), page 176 (TOC): "l'Abesse" changed to "l'Abbesse".
Page 167: "per-war" changed to "pre-war" (retained its pre-war aspect).
Page 172: "Heidsick" changed to "Heidsieck" (champagne-wine firm of
Heidsieck).
Note: All the above errors except for those on pages 9, 161, 172 were
corrected in the 1920 edition of the book.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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