ABSTRACT
When General Berghale’s division was halted at midday, fresh orders arrived from the Commander-in-chief. General Waldhurst ignorantly thought that the vast turning movement already commenced by the attack and rout of his Sixth Army Corps indicated a march of the German armies to the Midlands. He believed that they would leave London unattached on their right and invest the great manufacturing cities of central England. He was more than ever confirmed in his opinion that no sane general would dream of besieging the gigantic brick conglomeration of London. His ignorance of the numbers and movements of the German armies was complete.
