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The Forest of Swords

CHAPTER X
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"We press the German armies back everywhere.

Our supreme chief is a silent man, but he has delivered a master stroke.

We've emerged from the very gulf of defeat and despair to the heights of victory.

We're not only driving the Germans across the Marne, but we're driving them further.
Moreover, their armies are cut apart, and one is fighting for its existence, just as the French and English were fighting for theirs in that terrible retreat from Mons and Charleroi." "It's glorious, but we mustn't be too sanguine, Lannes.

The powers that overcome the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires will not forget for a hundred years that they had a war." "You're not telling me any news, Monsieur Jean the Scott.


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