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What reserves the Commander-in-Chief had he held "in his own
hand" too long and too far back.
The Guards went in when the enemy was reorganized to meet them. The
28th Division, afterward in support, was too late to be a decisive
factor.
I do not blame Lord French. I have no right to blame him, as I am not
a soldier nor a military expert. He did his best, with the highest
motives. The blunders he made were due to ignorance of modern battles.
Many other generals made many other blunders, and our men paid with
their lives. Our High Command had to learn by mistakes, by ghastly
mistakes, repeated often, until they became visible to the military
mind and were paid for again by the slaughter of British youth. One
does not blame. A writing-man, who was an observer and recorder, like
myself, does not sit in judgment. He has no right to judge. He merely
cries out, "O God! . . . O God!" in remembrance of all that agony and
that waste of splendid boys who loved life, and died.
On Sunday, as I have told, the situation was full of danger.


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