[97] _The portion of the Ypres salient attacked by the XXIII Corps was defended by French troops alone; there were no British north of the Broodseinde cross-roads._ [98] _The enemy is giving the Allies credit for his own tricks._ [99] _However, when British troops took over the coastal sector in 1917 Lombartzyde was in Allied possession._ [100] For Order of Battle, see Appendix. [101] _A Machine-Gun Detachment (Abtheilung) is a mounted battery with six guns._ [102] Consisting of the 4th _Ersatz_ Division and the 43rd Reserve Division. [103] _It is not clear why a British assertion about the defence of Dixmude should be quoted, nor indeed is it clear what shape this assertion can have taken, as no British troops were concerned in the Dixmude fighting, nor could there have been any occasion for any official British announcement about Dixmude._ _In the diagram above, for 201st, 202nd, and 203rd Res. Jäger Regt. read Res. Infantry Regt._ [104] _The frontage attacked by the twelve battalions of General von Winckler's Guard Division, far from being held by two British Divisions was held from north to south by the 1st Infantry Brigade, now reduced to some 800 bayonets, a battalion of Zouaves and the left brigade of the 3rd Division, little over 1200 strong. Even if the whole of the 3rd Guard Regiment may have been absorbed in the task of covering the main attack from the British troops lining the southern edge of the Polygon Wood, the superiority of the attacking force was sufficiently pronounced._ [105] _The Germans do not appear to have penetrated into the Polygon Wood at any point. The northern end of the breach in the British line was marked by a 'strong point' which had been erected near the south-west corner of the wood, known later as 'Black Watch Corner': this was successfully defended all day by a very weak company of the Black Watch. Attacks were made on the 1st King's lining the southern edge of the wood, apparently by the 3rd Guard Regiment, and also further eastward and to the left of the King's, on the 2nd Coldstream Guards. The Germans in this quarter would seem to have belonged to the 54th Reserve Division: at neither of these points did the attackers meet with any success._ [106] _A thick mist which prevented the troops holding the front line trenches from seeing far to their front undoubtedly played an important part in concealing the advance of the German Guard, and contributed appreciably to its success._ [107] _This is the eastern part of the wood known later as 'Inverness Copse.'_ [108] _This counter-attack may be identified with one delivered by the 1st Scots Fusiliers and one company 2nd Duke of Wellington's._