Hausen, General von, and the Saxon Corps, 32–3, 35, 38–41, 69, 71, 101, 135, 145, 155–9, 165–6, 171, 172, 175, 191, 193 Heeringen, General von, 30, 61–3, 192, 197, 199, 200, 203–4 Humbert, General, at Mondemont, 149, 152–4 Italian Frontier, 15, 25, 28 Joffre, General, moves 5th Army and B.E.F. to Sambre (August 16), 35–6, 42; “most unexpected” news, 41; career and character, 46–53; second new plan of campaign, 54–61; tactical lessons, 58; watches eastern frontier, 62, 64, 197; forms 6th Army, 65; helps the B.E.F., 65–8; forms 9th Army, 70; extends the retreat, 73–5; orders for general offensive, 74–5, 93–7, 111, 121; M. Millerand on, 77; gains and superiority of forces, 104–5; and Gallieni’s precipitancy, 116, 119, 121–3; and the decisive movement between Kluck and Bülow, 135, 189; on the victory, 195–6; the author of the victory, 218–29, 233; before Commission of Inquiry, 249; General Lanrezac on, 256; M. Messimy on, 257 Kitchener, Lord, and Field-Marshal French, 69, 258, 259 Kluck, General von, 32, 38–44, 66–9, 72–3, 79 _et seq._, 97; withdraws Corps across Marne against Maunoury, 118, 122–4; his farthest south positions, 119–120; results of retreat, 135–7, 141, 185; reaches the Aisne, 187; his two fatal movements, 220–2; Kluck and Bülow, 261 Landwehr and Ersatz employed on front, 15–16, 128, 199 Langle de Cary, General de, 28, 32–3, 48, 70, 102, 169–75, 193 Lanrezac, General, 27, 32, 35–43, 49, 67–8, 250, 255–6, 258 Launois, battle of, 70 Lille, fortress of, 34, 249, 252 Longwy, siege of, 33–4, 44 Lorraine, first French offensive in, 29–31 Machine guns, 18, 58, 115, 117, 253 Maud’huy, General, 30, 100, 138, 140, 193 Mangin, General, 37, 100, 138 Maps, German, evidence of the, 240 Maubeuge, 34, 44, 87, 105, 252, 256–7 Maunoury, General, 32, 63–5, 72–3, 77, 80–1, 85, 93, 97, 116, 122, 124, 126–30, 132–4, 184–8, 248 Michel, General, and the French Staff, 47, 49, 248 Mondemont, 143–4, 148–54 Mons, battle of, 37–43, 253–6 Montmirail reoccupied, 140 Morhange–Sarrebourg, battle of, 30–1 Namur, siege and fall of, 27, 38, 40 Nancy bombarded, 211 Nivelle, Colonel, 127 Offences, German, against rules of war, 80, 117, 124, 192, 194–5, 211, 212–3, 267 Offensive, French doctrine of the, 21–24, 58, 201–2, 216, 218, 245–7, 251 —— from the Somme–Laon–Craonne, proposed, 58–60, 65, 71 Ourcq, battle of the, 114–8, 126–35, 184–7 Paris, the defence of, 55, 73, 76–9, 259–60; the German dilemma, 82–8, 109, 221 Pau, General, 29, 47, 48, 198, 248 Percin, General, 248, 252 Petain, General, 100, 138