...French had consisted of the Twenty-sixth Corps, with the Fifteenth Corps on the right, all under the Duke of Wiirtemberg, whose headquarters were at Thielt....swiftly across the space which separated the two lines. CHAPTER The French troops, staring over the top of their 1 parapet at this curious screen which ensured...

...From the base of the German trenches over a considerable length there appeared jets of whitish vapor, which gathered and swirled until they settled into...the rays of the sinking sun. This ominous bank of vapor, impelled by a northern breeze, drifted swiftly across the space which separated the two lines....

...attacked. At the same time a phenomenon was observed which would seem to be more in place in thepages of a romance than in the record of an historian. From...staring over the top of their parapet at this curious screen which ensured them a temporary relief from fire, were observed suddenly to throw up their hands,...