Our Army at the Front
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Heywood Hale Broun. Our Army at the Front
CHAPTER I. THE LANDING OF PERSHING
CHAPTER II "VIVE PAIR-SHANG!"
CHAPTER III. THE FIRST DIVISION LANDS
CHAPTER IV. THE FOURTH OF JULY
CHAPTER V. WHAT THEY LIVED IN
CHAPTER VI. GETTING THEIR STRIDE
CHAPTER VII. SPEEDING UP
CHAPTER VIII. BACK WITH THE BIG GUNS
CHAPTER IX. THE EYES OF THE ARMY
CHAPTER X. THE SCHOOLS FOR OFFICERS
CHAPTER XI. SOME DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
CHAPTER XII. THE MEN WHO DID EVERYTHING
CHAPTER XIII. BEHIND THE LINES
CHAPTER XIV. FRANCE AND THE MEDICOES
CHAPTER XV. IN CHARGE OF MORALE
CHAPTER XVI. INTO THE TRENCHES
CHAPTER XVII. OUR OWN SECTOR
CHAPTER XVIII. A CIVILIAN VISITOR
CHAPTER XIX. A FAMOUS GESTURE
CHAPTER XX. THE FIRST TWO BATTLES
CHAPTER XXI. TEUFEL-HUNDEN
CHAPTER XXII. THE ARMY OF MANŒUVRE
CHAPTER XXIII. ST. MIHIEL
CHAPTER XXIV. MEUSE-ARGONNE BEGINS
CHAPTER XXV. CEASE FIRING
GENERAL PERSHING'S REPORT
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THE Invicta came into Boulogne harbor in the early morning, to find that her attempts at a secret crossing had amounted to nothing at all. Everybody within sight and ear-shot was out to show how pleased he was, riotously and openly, indifferent alike to the hopes of spy or censor.
The fishing-boats, the merchant coastwise fleet, the Channel ships and hordes of little privately owned sloops and yawls and motor-boats all plied chipperly around with "bannières étoilées" fore and aft. The sun was very bright and the water was very blue, and between them was that exhilarating air which always rises over the coasts of France, whenever and wherever you land on them, which not all the smoke and grime of the world's biggest war could deaden or destroy.
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"As a man and as a soldier I am profoundly happy over, indeed proud of, the high mission with which I am charged. But all this is purely personal, and might appear out of proportion with the solemnity of the hour and the gravity of events now occurring. If I have thought it proper to indulge in this confidence, it is because I wish to express my admiration of the French soldier, and at the same time to express my pride in being at the side of the French and allied armies.
"It is much more important, I think, to announce that we are the precursors of an army that is firmly resolved to do its part on the Continent for the cause the American nation has adopted as its own. We come conscious of the historic duty to be performed when our flag shows itself upon the battle-fields of the world. It is not my role to promise or to prophesy. Let it suffice to tell you that we know what we are doing, and what we want."
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