The Battle of the MarnePerris, G. H. (George Herbert)
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The Battle of the Marne
Perris, G. H. (George Herbert)
Marne, 1st Battle of the, France, 1914; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France
2nd and 3rd Colonial Divisions _XVIII Corps Active_
(Generals Leblois and Leblond). (General von Tchenk).
Experienced troops, largely
re-enlisted from the general army. Having lost heavily, was
They had suffered heavily in the replaced during the battle
Belgian Ardennes, losing many by the
officers. At Blesmes and Dompremy.
_XVIII Corps Reserve._
_2nd Corps_ (General Gerard).
Both had come down the
3rd and 4th Divisions, less a west side of the
brigade (Generals Cordonnier and Argonne and the Ste.
Rabier). At Maurupt and Sermaize. Menehould highroad. About
Somme–Yevre and Possesse.
A division of each of the last two
corps was shifted from de Langle’s _A Cavalry Division._
right to his left on September 8.
De Langle’s Army extended along
the railway from Sompius, by V ARMY (The Imperial CROWN
Blesmes Junction, to Sermaize. PRINCE).
_VI Corps_ (General von
3rd ARMY (General SARRAIL), (H.Q., Pricttwitz).
Ligny-en-Barrois).
Of Breslau. Had come south
_15th Corps_ (General Espinasse). by Les Islettes, and was
now south of the Argonne,
29th and 30th Divisions (Generals striking toward Revigny.
Carbillet and Colle). From the 2nd
Army; detrained, September 7. A _VI Corps Reserve._
brigade was diverted, September 8,
to the aid of the 4th Army. Near A brigade only on the
Revigny. Part of the corps was front, at Passavant and
afterwards sent east to defend the Charmontois. The rest
passages of the Meuse. west of the Meuse, near
Montfaucon, facing Verdun.
_5th Corps_ (General Micheler).
_Landwehr Division_ of the
9th and 10th Divisions (Generals same, before Verdun.
Martin and Gossart). North of
Revigny, about Laimont and _XIII Corps_ (General von
Villotte. General Gossart replaced Dürach).
General Roques, killed on
September 6. Of Stuttgart. Coming by Ste.
Menehould, it had reached
_7th Cavalry Division_ (General Triaucourt.
d’Urbal).
_XVI Corps_ (General von
About Isle-en-Barrois. Sent on Mudra).
September 11 to the Heights of the
Meuse. Of Metz. Coming down
the east side of the
_6th Corps_ (General Verraux).
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