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Battle of the Mons
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the Battle of the Mons.
The
British Expeditionary Force arrived in France
on 14th August, 1914. On the way to meet the French
Army at Charleroi, the 70,000 strong BEF met the advancing German
Army at Mons. The British Commander Sir John
French, deployed the British infantry corps, under the leadership
of General Horace Smith-Dorrien, east and
west of Mons on a 40km front. General Edmund
Allenby and the cavalry division was kept in reserve.
To stop the advancing Germans, orders were given to a group of Royal
Fusiliers to destroy the bridges over the Mons-Conde Canal. The men
came under heavy German fire and during the operation, five men, including
Private Sidney Godley, Captain Theodore
Wright and Corporal Charles Jarvis,
won the Victoria Cross.
On the morning of 23rd August, General Alexander von Kluck and his 150,000
soldiers attacked the British positions. Although the German First Army
suffered heavy losses from British rifle fire, Sir
John French was forced to instruct his outnumbered forces to retreat.
French favoured a withdrawal to the coast but the British war minister,
Lord Kitchener, ordered the British
Expeditionary Force to retreat to the River Marne.
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from Neil Demarco's The Great War
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