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Title: The causes and meaning of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Gordy, Wilbur Fisk, 1854-1929
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Boston, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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l ports.With the military mastery of the Continent, hecould then have devoted his entire attention toEngland. 145. Darkest Days of the War; Two Results of theBitter Experience.—The days following this firstGerman drive of 1918 were the darkest of the warfor the Allies. But the bitter experience had two re-sults, which conjointly were destined to beat Ger-many to her knees. The first was the putting of asingle head—it was General Foch, the brilliantFrench leader—in supreme command of the alliedarmies. The second was the marvellous rapiditywith which American troops were transportedacross the Atlantic to the western front. For thiscolossal achievement, which astounded Germany,and, in fact, the whole world, great credit is due toBritish shipping, which carried over more than halfof the troops. 146. American Soldiers Halt the German Advanceat Chateau-Thierry.—In the third German drive, be-ginning May 27, which aimed to capture Paris, theAmerican troops played a conspicuous part in
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120 THE CAUSES AND MEANING blocking the progress of the German army atChateau-Thierry, a town which stands at a bendof the Marne River. It was on this battle-fieldthat American soldiers not only halted the advanceof the picked German troops, who, flushed withrecent victory, were sweeping forward towardParis, but forced them to give ground.Heroism To the American marines and the American Americans troops fell the honor of holding back the Germandrive at the point where the assault was thefiercest. And they did it with a heroism which hasnever been surpassed in the annals of warfare.Their valor was as memorable as that of Leonidasand his Spartan band at Thermopylae many cen-turies ago.The The American marines—who met the enemy in \f mTrlnes fight Belleau Wood in this battle of Chateau-Thierry—a°fms?y began the deadly struggle on June 2, a strugglesuperior which caused the loss, either in killed or seriouslywounded, of more than half their entire force of8,000 men. For almost an ent

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