Chapter I: Front Matter

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UNDER FOCH'S COMMAND

STORIES OF WAR

BY CAPTAIN BRERETON

"When Captain Brereton has a war subject to handle he always does it well."--+Westminster Gazette.+

+The Armoured-Car Scouts+: The Campaign in the Caucasus.

+On the Road to Bagdad+: A Story of the British Expeditionary
Force in Mesopotamia.

+With Our Russian Allies+: A Tale of Cossack Fighting in the
Eastern Campaign.

+On the Field of Waterloo.+

+With Wellington in Spain+: A Story of the Peninsula.

+A Hero of Sedan+: A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War.

+With Wolseley to Kumasi+: The First Ashanti War.

+From the Nile to the Tigris+: Campaigning from Western Egypt to
Mesopotamia.

+At Grips with the Turk+: A Story of the Dardanelles Campaign.

+With Roberts to Candahar+: Third Afghan War.

+A Hero of Lucknow+: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny.

+Under Haig in Flanders+: A Story of Vimy, Messines, and Ypres.

+With Joffre at Verdun+: A Story of the Western Front.

+Under French's Command+: A Story of the Western Front from Neuve
Chapelle to Loos.

+With French at the Front+: A Story of the Great European War down
to the Battle of the Aisne.

+How Canada was Won+: A Tale of Wolfe and Quebec.

+Jones of the 64th.+: Battles of Assaye and Laswaree.

+A Soldier of Japan+: A Tale of the Russo-Japanese War.

+With Shield and Assegai+: A Tale of the Zulu War.

+Under the Spangled Banner+: The Spanish-American War.

+In the King's Service+: Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland.

+In the Grip of the Mullah+: Adventure in Somaliland.

+With Rifle and Bayonet+: A Story of the Boer War.

+One of the Fighting Scouts+: Guerrilla Warfare in South Africa.

+The Dragon of Pekin+: A Story of the Boxer Revolt.

+A Gallant Grenadier+: A Story of the Crimean War.

LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

UNDER FOCH'S COMMAND

A Tale of the Americans in France

BY

CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON

Author of "The Armoured-car Scouts" "From the Nile to the Tigris" "Under Haig in Flanders" &c. &c.

_Illustrated by Wal Paget_

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

Contents

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I. AN AMERICAN DECLARATION 9

II. THE SHERIFF'S POSSE 21

III. IN THE MINE SHAFTS 37

IV. "EN ROUTE" FOR EUROPE 53

V. A GERMAN AGENT 68

VI. BOMBED IN MID-OCEAN 81

VII. ABOARD A U-BOAT 95

VIII. CAPTURE OF THE TRAWLER 109

IX. A HARD FIGHT 124

X. THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT 137

XI. ON CONVOY DUTY 150

XII. GERMANY'S GREATEST EFFORT 162

XIII. SURROUNDED 176

XIV. WHERE MEN FOUGHT FOR EMPIRE 191

XV. ATTACKED FROM ALL SIDES 206

XVI. HEINRICH HILKER, MASTER SPY 221

XVII. AN AMERICAN ENCAMPMENT 236

XVIII. IN SEARCH OF LIBERTY 251

XIX. PLOTS WITHIN PLOTS 262

XX. A TURN IN THE TIDE 275

Illustrations

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THE GERMAN "GOT HIM" AT ONCE _Frontispiece_

ONE OF THE THREE FELL WITH A DULL THUD 40

THE THREE FRIENDS ARE HAULED ABOARD THE U-BOAT 88

A LUCKY SHOT TOOK AWAY A PORTION OF THE BRIDGE 128

BILL, TYING A SOMEWHAT DIRTY HANDKERCHIEF TO
THE TOP OF HIS BAYONET, WAVED IT 216

THE MAN BESIDE HIM WAS A MANIAC, HE TOLD HIMSELF 272

UNDER FOCH'S COMMAND