On October 9, 1914 Antwerp was bombed by a Zeppelin. German forces occupied the city the next day. Postcard with an inset portrait of Count von Zeppelin.
Antwerpen unter Feuer eines Zeppelin.Antwerp under fire of a Zeppelin.Reverse:No. 1958 Charles Lehmann, Kunstanstalt, Berlin N.O. 43
"General Joffre informed me that the primary object of the operations then being pursued on the western wing of the Allied Armies was to envelop the German Army's opposing wing. If this should prove impossible, the manœvre would serve to prevent any corresponding attempt on the part of the enemy to envelop our left. With this object in view he had transported to the left of the Sixth Army . . .In addition to this, the British Army had asked to be transferred from the Aisne to our left flank. . . . Finally, arrangements would have to be made, sooner or later, for coöperation with the Belgian Army, now grouped in the vicinity of Antwerp."
From the memoirs of French General Foch on his meeting with French Commander Joffre on October 4, 1914. Foch is first hearing details of Joffre's plans for outflanking the Germans, mutual attempts that ended on the North Sea, giving the name the Race to the Sea to the movement and battles.
The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott by Ferdinand Foch, pp. 112-113, copyright © 1931 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., publication date: 1931
Foch, October, 1914, 1914-10-04, Antwerp, Beseler
