On the following
day he advanced at a lesser pace on its left bank, taking and then
losing the villages of Marcilly and Chambry--murderous struggles
maintained amid terrible heat. General Gallieni, who followed the
battle with the utmost attention, hurriedly came to the assistance
of Manoury; he sent to him on the 7th and 8th the Seventh Division,
which had just arrived at Paris, half of the division being transferred
by rail, the other half by means of thousands of automobiles
requisitioned for the purpose. General Joffre likewise sent to
Manoury the Fourth Army Corps, recruited from the Third Army, though
an almost entire division of it was called for by the British to
safeguard the junction of forces.
"The day of September 8 turned out the most arduous for Manoury;
the Germans, making attacks of extreme violence, won some success.
They occupied Betz, Thury-en-Vallois and Nanteuil-le-Haudouin. Yon
Kluck attacked all his force on the right, and it was at that time
he who threatened Manoury with an encircling movement. The Fourth
French Army Corps, sent forward at full speed by General Joffre and
arriving at the spot, had the order to allow itself to be killed
to the last man, but to maintain its ground. It maintained it. It
succeeded toward evening in checking the advance of the Germans. In
a brilliant action the army of Manoury took three standards. It
rallied the main body of its forces on the left and prepared for
a new attack.
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