So ended 1914, the year of resistance. During it the Western Allies had been grievously oppressed by their well-prepared enemy. They had been over-weighted by numbers and even more so by munitions. For a space it had seemed as if the odds were too much for them. Then with a splendid rally they had pushed the enemy back. But his reserves had come up and had proved to be as superior as his first line had been. But even so he had reached his limit. He could get no further. The danger hour was past. There was now coming the long, anxious year of {335} equilibrium, the narrative of which will be given in the succeeding volume of 1915. Finally will come the year of restoration which will at least begin, though it will not finish, the victory of the champions of freedom. {337} INDEX Abell, Major, 70 Abercrombie, Colonel, 94 Agadir, 7 Aisne, battle of the, 162-199 Alexander, Major, 82 Algeciras, 7 Allen, Major, 209 Allenby, General, 56, 80, 88, 96, 97, 126, 155, 204, 226, 279, 287 Alleyne, Captain, 294 Allfrey, Captain, 149 Alsace, 43, 57 Anderson, General, 322, 325 Anley, Colonel, 105 Anley, General, 229 Annesley, Colonel, 284 Ansell, Colonel, 132 Antwerp, fall of, 193; Naval Division at siege of, 195 Ardee, Lord, 288 Army, the Russian, 138; at battle of Gumbinnen, 138; at battle of Lemberg, 139; at battle of Tannenberg, 139 Ashburner, Captain, 70 Asquith, Right Hon. H. H., 18 Austin, Dr., 93 Australia, offer of service, 34, 37; Bismarck Archipelago captured by, 312; German colony of New Guinea captured by, 312; 317 Austria, Archduke Francis Ferdinand of, assassinated at Sarajevo, 12 Austria-Hungary, annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1908, 2; presents ultimatum to Serbia, 14; declares war against Serbia, 15 Baird, Major, 325 Balfour, Lieutenant, 167 Bannatyne, Colonel, 255 Barnes, Colonel, 241 Battenberg, Prince Louis of, 40 Battenberg, Prince Maurice of, 256 Bavaria, Crown Prince of, 145 Beatty, Admiral Sir David, 313 Belgians, King of the, 198 Belgium, infraction of neutrality, 12 Below-Saleske, von, 19 Benson, Captain, 73 Bent, Colonel, 332 Berners, Captain, 172 Bernhardi, General von, 1, 8, 159 Bethmann-Hollweg, von, 17, 21, 23, 28 Bidon, General, 247 Bingham, General, 283 Bismarck Archipelago, German colony, captured by Australian forces, 312 Blewitt, Lieutenant, 268 Boger, Colonel, 83 Bols, Colonel, 207 Bolton, Colonel, 244 Botha, Right Hon. Louis, 34, 313 Bottomley, Major, 259 Bowes, General, 218, 295, 324 Boyd, Lieutenant, 266 Bradbury, Captain, V.C., 130, 131 Brett, Colonel, 102 Bridges, Major Tom, 118 Briggs, General, 128, 130, 174, 282, 283 British Expeditionary Force: departure from England, 50; its composition, 52, 86; its arrival in France, 53; its reception by the French people, 54; advance into Belgium, 57 Brooke, Captain, 260 Bruce, Captain the Hon. H. L., 323 Brunker, General, 328 Buckle, Major, 222 Bulbe, Lieutenant, 78