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  • Joffre had planned to meet the Germans along the Meuse and the Sambre, that is along the French frontier, but when the German advance began, his troops on these fronts were outnumbered by at least two to one, not because the mass of the French troops had been sent to Alsace-Lorraine, but because the French had not foreseen the capacity of the Germans to mobilize their reserves and had little more than their first-line troops ready, while the Germans were making use of Landwehr and even Landsturm formations in the first shock.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

  • • Wilfred Owen was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre, just one week before the war ended.

    Dulce Et Decorum Est or All Wars are caused by Assholes 2008

  • • Wilfred Owen was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre, just one week before the war ended.

    2008 November 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

  • In the evening they reached the town of Charleroi, on the Sambre, where the Count of Crevecoeur had determined to leave the Countess Isabelle, whom the terror and fatigue of yesterday, joined to a flight of fifty miles since morning, and the various distressing sensations by which it was accompanied, had made incapable of travelling farther with safety to her health.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • So when anybody comes to pick a quarrel with Finot, he finds old Giroudeau, Captain of the Dragoons of the Guard, that set out as a private in a cavalry regiment in the army of the Sambre-et-Meuse, and was fencing-master for five years to the First Hussars, army of Italy!

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Why, he had crossed the Sambre at every point the day before!

    Belloc Speaks - On the Decline of the Book 2007

  • My uncle Toby and the corporal had gone on separately with their operations the greatest part of the campaign, and as effectually cut off from all communication of what either the one or the other had been doing, as if they had been separated from each other by the Maes or the Sambre.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • My uncle Toby and the corporal had gone on separately with their operations the greatest part of the campaign, and as effectually cut off from all communication of what either the one or the other had been doing, as if they had been separated from each other by the Maes or the Sambre.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • She was accustomed to exercise for, each morning for the past two weeks, Sharpe had saddled her at three o-clock, then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley, but this morning, hearing the crackle of musketry to the east, he had ridden the mare much further than usual.

    Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

  • There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud - it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market, by a Prussian regiment on exercise, or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway's bed of chalk and flint, yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier, and the presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause.

    Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

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