I will return to it in a later letter.

Meanwhile the German Command in the Marne salient plunged blindly on, deepening the pocket in which his forces were engaged--striking for Montmirail, Meaux, and Paris.
But Foch's hour had come, and on July 18th he launched that ever-famous counter-offensive on the Soissons-Chateau-Thierry front, which, in Sir Douglas Haig's quiet words, "effected a complete change in the whole military situation." After a moment of bewilderment, attacked on both flanks by irresistible forces of French, British, and Americans, von Boehm turned to escape from the hounds on his track.

He fought, as we all know, a skilful retreat to the Vesle, leaving prisoners and guns all the way, and on the Vesle he stood.

But the last German offensive was done, and Foch was already thinking of other prey.
On the 23rd of July there was another conference of the military leaders, held under other omens, and in a different atmosphere from that of March 25th.

At that conference Foch disclosed his plans and gave each army its task.