;
detachments at Bruges and Roulers, 219;
outposts of, 4th Division in touch with, 220;
increasing strength, and its effects, 222, 224, 226, 227-8;
forces engaged, and actual positions of, on night of Oct. 21,
231-2;
later positions, 232 _sqq. passim_;
attacks by, in massed formation, 235;
losses during 1st Battle of Ypres, 232-3, 235, 241, 242, 279;
continual reinforcements of, during the 1st Battle of Ypres,
238, 240, 243;
onslaught of (Oct. 31-Nov. 1), glorious resistance of Allied
forces, and points of major importance, 238-9, 260;
at Gheluvelt, 250;
enormous superiority of, in numbers and artillery
(Oct. 31-Nov. 1), 260;
and before, 267;
failure to turn the situation to full account, 260-1;
forces opposing Cavalry Corps at Messines (Oct. 31-Nov. 1),
262;
pressure on W. Front increasing, 270;
forces employed in the great attack on the Ypres salient
(Nov. 11-12), 277, 278;
reduced to War of Position on its whole W. Front, 345;
Advance to the sea checked by the first phase of the 1st Battle
of Ypres, 235-6;
First use of poisoned gas by, 356;
_Morale_ of, effect on, of the W. fighting, 268;
Results to, of successive phases of the 1st Battle of Ypres
summarised, 277;
Right flank of (_see also_ Flanking Movement), efforts to
turn first phase of the 1st Battle of Ypres, the conclusion
of (Oct. 26), 235-6;
Tied down on the W. to a line of trenches;
French on, to his troops, 268;
Artillery, 45, 66, 78, 101, 119, 123, 126-7, 131, 133, 145-6,
152-3, 240;
Rheims Cathedral destroyed by, 159;
3rd French Army's capture of (Sept. 11), 145;
Heavy, 144, 222, 240, 348;
development of, 352;
range of, 215;
8-in. howitzers 144, 198, 212, 348;
Machine guns of, 124, 321-2, 324 _passim, et alibi_;
Preparation of, before the war, scale of, 351, 352;
Tactics, 129;
Cavalry, _passim_, tactics of, in Belgium, 44-5;
artillery and jaeger battalions with, 42, 124, 126, 207;
operations of, and repulses, &c., 83-4, 198, 204, 230;
French's knowledge of, utilised on the Marne, 9, 10, 123-4;
Defiance of chivalry in war, 338;
Designs at Landrecies and a