Note 54 — Chapter I · INTRODUCTORY

The instances which follow are taken from official reports. I may add another illustration here published for the first time. A German soldier, recording the story of how the maire of a French town was torn from his home and carried off by the troops, writes: “In spite of his protests we put him into our company and made him march with us. He called us names and shouted and protested, and kept us all in good spirits.”