This battle, in so far as the 6th French Army, the British Army, the 6th French Army, and the 9th French Army were concerned, may be said to have concluded on the evening of September 10, by which time the Germans had been driven back to the line Soissons-Reims, with a loss of thousands of prison: ers, many guns, and enormous masses of transport.
About September 3, the enemy appears to have changed his plane and to have determined to stop his advance south direct upon Paris, for on September 4 air reconnaissances showed that his main columns were moving in a south-easterly direction generally east of a line drawn through Nanteuil and Lizy on the Oureq.
On September 5, several of these columns were observed have crossed the Marn2, whilst German troops, which were observed moving south-east up the left flank of the Oureq on the 4th, were now reported to be halted and facing that river. Heads of the enemy's columns were seen crossing at Changis, La Ferté, Nogent, Chiteau Thierry, and Mezy.
Considerable German columne of all arms were seen to be converging on Montmirail, whilst before sunset large bivouacs of the enemy were located in the neighbourhood of
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