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War declared, 1914
From the 27th July 1914, Britain began to respond to the gathering crisis in Germany. Two days later, all British troops on leave were recalled, and the army mobilized. Lord Kitchener, the new Secretary of State, appealed for volunteers. By chance, The Kensington Territorial Force had just been assembling for summer camp, and had entrained at Addison Road, station, on 2nd August for Salisbury Plain. At 10, that night, they receive orders to report to their Headquarter’s Drill Hall. That they were able to act quickly, under their commanding officer Lieut.-Colonel F G Lewis, [1910-15.], it was a tribute to their preparedness and efficient staff work. The 1/13th [County of London] Princess Louise’s Kensington Battalion, The County of London Regiment, was officially mobilised on the 4th August 1914, two days after boarding the train for summer camp. They were to form part of the then 24th Brigade, 8th Division.

Ninety thousand men descended upon Southampton and Portsmouth to board ships for Boulogne, Rouen and Le Havre, under the command of Sir John French… their destination was Maubeuge. The Army was made up of four infantry and one cavalry division. A division at this time equalled about eighteen thousand men – this sum included support troops. Two or more divisions made up a corps and two or more corps made an army. A British Expeditionary Force of six divisions, of about 80,000 men, set sail for France… they arrived on the 6th August and moving northeast reached the small town of Mons, in Belgium. The landing of The British Forces was completed by the middle of August.

Battle of the Frontiers
The battle waged against the advancing German Army by the Belgians and the French… the losses were high. Almost immediately the British had gone into the line alongside the French Army, trying to stem the tide of the German advance. The object was to hold the line located by the Mons-Conde Canal in Belgium. The British Force was stationed on the left of the Allied Forces directly in front of the advancing 1st German Army, Commanded by Alexander von Kluck. In manpower the German and French armies were equal at a million each. The German Schlieffen Plan, which entailed encircling the Allies, had been carefully planned long in advance. The BEF were crucial in keeping the line intact by stopping the German right wing. Whilst the British troops were heavily engaged the French 5th Army was engaged with the German 2nd and 3rd armies at the Battle of Charleroi. The French Army Commander, General Lanrezac instructed Field Marshal Sir John French the BEF Commander to hold the line for twenty-four hours. The BEF dug themselves in - preparing for the onslaught... The first contact with the enemy was on the 22nd August.

Battle of Cateau, 23 August
On 23 August 1914, the German 1st Army of General Alexander von Kluck arrived at Cateau – a village on the edge of Mons. They were following the Schlieffen Plan to outflank the Allies – to cut them off – from using the channel ports. The BEF was made up of four regular army divisions arranged as I Corps [Douglas Haig] and II Corps [Horace Smith-Dorrien]. Three hours later eight German battalions advanced against two battalions of the 3rd Infantry Division including D and B Companies of the 4th Middlesex Regiment, Kensingtons. They were overwhelmed by the 31st, 85th, and 86th, German Fusilier Regiments; these three Regiments comprised the German 18th Division, forced the British back towards Paris. By mid-day, the British began a withdrawal. To assist them, they requested reinforcement from the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish.

Battle of Mons, 23 - 24 August
After initially digging themselves in - thereby becoming familiar with the place, they set out their fields of fire and prepared a second line, they were again ordered to retire – so as not to be cut off. This was ordered by the Commander-in-Chief, General Joffre. The French Army had been defeated at the Battle of Charleroi. The British Army was the original Old Contemptibles and considered Britain’s finest troops capable of rapid, accurate firing with their Lee-Enfield rifles, capable of 15 aimed shots a minute. Albert was a champion shot, representing the regiment at Bisley. He was capable of double that figure. The battle opened at dawn on the 23rd August, with a German bombardment. There were four bridges over the canal… these the Germans had to force. Advancing in close-order, parade ground fashion, the advancing Germans were skittled down and forced to retire in confusion. Another attack was formed only this time in loose formation… this was more successful; using plantations of fir-trees to shied them. On the right of the Royal Fusiliers were the Kensingtons and Gordon Highlanders… Both suffered grievously. Fortunately the reserve battalion, the Royal Irish, gave sufficient steadying power to hold the bridges. Throughout the day the British II Corps held out. It was obvious to all that holding the bridges were not going to last. The Kensingtons had suffered 15 officers and 353 killed or wounded nearly half the total. To the east the Germans had penetrated the perimeter turning the right flank.

At 15.00 hours the British 3rd Divisions was ordered to retire to the south of Mons. To straighten the line the 5th Division was also ordered to retire - establish a line through the villages. As news was received about the French collapse – it was deemed wise to pull back further, unfortunately this exposed the British right flank… a further withdrawal was scheduled for that night. It was an invidious position to be in. There had not been time to organise a proper holding action. The British Army was now holding a defensive line on the Valenciennes to Maubeuge Road. All the time the Germans were advancing. This retreat lasted two weeks and covered 250 miles. The battle had been won by the Germans although at a tremendous price [5,000 casualties]. The advance nearly took them to Paris.

Battle of the Marne, 5 - 14 September
The remainder of the German 1st Army had by this time arrived. Although the Germans advanced they lost considerably more men – it was considered a great strategic withdrawal… saving the French line from total collapse. The 4th Royal Fusiliers defended the northern approaches to Mons. The remainder of D and B Companies, of the Kensingtons, retreated to St Symphorien cemetery on the outskirts of Mons. Early that afternoon the British could see they were unable to withstand the pressure. The French army was retreating south together with the Belgian army. The British had their flank exposed and in danger of being cut off, falling back to Etreux on the 27th August. It was claimed the ‘Angels of Mons’ had aided the British army. This was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force – the retreat from Belgium to the Marne. The fighting in Belgium and France was along traditional lines, which was of armies surging backwards and forwards… in what is known as engaging in forward and retiring movements. At the beginning of September the Allied retreat slowed down as the Germans lost impetuous - further from their supply base. This heralded the Battle of the Marne, which halted the German spearhead and lasted until the middle of the month. After the battle it was decided to move the BEF north to Flanders convenient to the channel ports. Travelling by train III Corps reached Abbeville on the 8th October, II Corps a day later and I Corps following on. On the 11th October IV Corps found itself close to Bruges and Ghent. Three days later the last gap in the Allied line was secured. The BEF held the line from Le Bassee to the river Douve… The French held the southern flank. The BEF was then moved to Flanders to be in easy reach of their supply base at the channel ports… arriving there the second week in October.

1st Battle of Ypres, 15 Oct - 22 Nov
Early on 3rd November 1914, The Kensington 2nd Battalion, marching behind their band to Watford station, boarded their train - bound for Southampton. Embarkation was complete by the following morning. The Battalion sailed for Le Havre which came in sight by midday… There they were marched off to Rest Camp 1. The next day mounting railway trucks they steamed off for St Omer grasping their long Lee-Enfield rifles, reaching their destination on the 6th. A period of training followed at Blendecques. These men were to join their 1st Battalion – to make up their numbers. The major battle that first year for the British was the 1st Battle of Ypres fought October 19th by the BEF under the command of Field Marshal Sir John French. That month the Allies had reached Nieuport on the North Sea coast.

The Germans meanwhile had captured Antwerp, and forced its defender back. At the start of November 1914, the Kensingtons were attached to the 8th Division as part of the 25th Infantry Brigade. The Brigade included the 2nd Lincolnshire’s, 2nd Royal Berkshires, 1st Royal Irish Rifles and the 2nd Rifle Brigade. The 8th Division was allocated a four mile stretch alongside the La Bassee Road and La Rue Tilleloy, just in front of the village of Laventie. This was referred to as the La Bassee Front and lay opposite Aubers Ridge north-east of Bethune, in Atois. The 8th Division had been redeployed north to join two divisions of reinforcements recently landed in Belgium. They advanced east from St Omer halting the German forces at the Passchendale Ridge. The Division was lined up from La Bassee to Messines, there was little activity but you could hear the battle raging to the north. The French Army Command and General Foch believed a coordinated attack would result in the recapture of the industrial city of Lille, then Belgium, finally to capture Brussels. The German General Falkenhayn had other opinions. He ordered the capture of Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne. He struck the Belgian defences on the Yser River. By far it was the worst battle fought – there was an almighty clash of troops. Only a few miles down the road was Ypres. There was constant hand to hand fighting as the battle swayed from one side to the other. The problem for the British was that the position was vulnerable to superior German artillery. The British made a stand which formed a salient around Ypres, the Battle becoming ‘The Massacre of the Innocents at Ypres. The Innocents being eight German units of young volunteers, many of them students - who were annihilated.

Battle of Nonne Bosschen, 11 November
The last major attack on the British lines occurred on the 11th November. This battle became famous because it was made by the Prussian Guards and they broke through the British lines. A counter-attack by the 1st Guards Division was forced to take shelter in the woods before driven out by a counter-attack. The fighting secured the close bonding between the British and the French. The two armies fought side by side all around Ypres in a fashion not used in earlier battles. The more the Germans extended their lines the more the Allied troops did too as the front stretched northwards up past Bapaume, Arras and Bethune… onwards to Ypres. For the next four years this ridge was to become a raging sore, the landscape a pulverised mass of pocked marked soil… this was Passchendale. The Battle of Aisne ended on the 13th November 1914, the last battle of the first year of war. During the 14th November 1914 the Kensingtons marched to Estaires. This small mill town on the banks of the Lys was to become very familiar to the Battalion. The low-lying land around the river and bridge; the lined cobbled roads shaded by tall poplars on either side echoed to the sound of marching feet. The 8th Division was part of General Sir Henry Rawlinson’s IV Corps… he inspected the Kensingtons, after the Battalion had reorganized itself - into a four-company structure. He recognised the enormous efforts made and made reference to it. The 8th Division went into the line just south of the Belgian frontier, close to Armentieres.

Battle of the Aisne, late November
Almost immediately there came the four day Battle of the Aisne. The method of waging war changed to one of stagnation as each side settled down and dug Battle Lines. Henceforth the artillery, and its insatiable appetite for ammunition, and the strung barbed wire, developed into the Western Front. The line from Ypres to Nieuport was held by the Belgians; Bethune, Lens, Arras, Bapaume, Verdun, and St Quentin were to become synonymous with great suffering and death. By the end of November the terrible battles died down, both armies were spent forces needing to reform. The Salient came to be attached to the Belgian names of the farms, villages and features – Mouse Trap Farm, Cheddar Villa, Polygon Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Hill 60, and many more At Neuve Chappelle the 1st Battalion Kensingtons lost 160 men even though they had broken the German lines. The losses at Aubers Ridge the losses were even higher reducing the battalion by thirty per cent. There were several awards granted and the gallant action by Captain Kimber rated a DSO. Over to the northeast a village on a ridge provided cover and observation posts for the German observers. They could see all that was going on. By December, the Germans decided to call off their offensive and to dig in – to resume the battle in the spring.--Terence Kearey 12:57, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Human Legacy Course I Alexander The Great & His Legacy LECTURER: Mr. Blair

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Hello and welcome to the fourth and final lecture of Week 5. In this lecture, we will be taking a look at Alexander the Great and his legacy. Our question for today is:

Could a 10-year-old boy tame the fiercest of stallions? According to the ancient biographer Plutarch, a horse trader approached King Philip of Macedonia with a beautiful stallion for sale named Bucephalus. However, none of Philip’s servants could ride the wild horse. If anyone tried to mount him, the stallion reared high into the air and threw him off. He would allow no one to come near him.

Disappointed at the loss of so fine an animal, Philip prepared to send the trader away. Before the trader could leave, however, Philip’s young son Alexander scoffed at the grooms. Only 10 years old, he claimed that he would be able to tame the fierce steed. Philip did not think it possible, but he agreed to allow Alexander to try. The young prince walked slowly to the horse, whispering calming words and turning him to face the sun. Of all the people present, only young Alexander had noticed that Bucephalus was scared of his shadow. Once the horse was facing the sun and thus could no longer see his shadow, he allowed Alexander to climb on his back; and the two took off at a gallop. Philip, amazed at his son’s cleverness, proclaimed, “O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee.”

Alexander The Great
In the years that followed the Peloponnesian War, a new power arose and took control of Greece. That power was Macedonia, a kingdom located just north of Greece. The Macedonian rise to power was led by a king named Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great.

The Rise of Macedonia
Most Greeks considered the Macedonians somewhat backward: The Macedonians lived in villages rather than cities and spoke a form of Greek that was almost unintelligible to other Greek speakers. When Philip II took the throne in 359 BC, however, Macedonia’s fortune changed.

One of Philip’s first actions as king was reorganizing the Macedonian army. He adopted the phalanx system used by other Greeks, but he gave his soldiers much longer spears than others used. He also included larger bodies of cavalry and archers than most city-states used in their armies.

With his newly organized army, Philip set out to conquer Greece. Only a few city states, including Athens and Thebes, seemed to realize the danger that Philip posed, and so he faced little opposition. The Macedonians quickly crushed the armies that stood against them in battle, and in time they conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta. Philip’s conquests might have continued, but he was assassinated in 336 BC. His title and his plans for conquests fell to his son Alexander.

Alexander's Conquests
Though very young—only 20 years old—when he became king, Alexander had been trained to rule almost from birth. He had learned both warfare and politics from several teachers: his father, his clever mother, and the philosopher Aristotle. When his father was killed, Alexander was both willing and able to take over the leadership of his kingdom.

Almost as soon as Alexander took over the kingdom, he was faced with revolts in Greece. He immediately set out to reestablish his control there, using harsh measures to show the Greeks that he would not tolerate rebellion. For example, when Thebes rebelled, Alexander totally crushed its army, sold the people into slavery, and burned the city to the ground.

With Greece firmly under his control, Alexander decided to build himself an empire. In 334 BC he led his army into Asia to take on the Persians. Alexander’s army was relatively small, but his soldiers were well trained and fiercely loyal to him. In contrast, the Persian army was huge but disorganized.

Within a year, Alexander’s army had won a major victory against the Persians in Asia Minor. From there, Alexander led his troops south into Phoenicia and Egypt, two territories ruled by Persia. In both places, Alexander was welcomed and praised as a liberator. In fact, the people of Egypt were so grateful that he had driven the Persians out that they named him their new pharaoh.

From Egypt, Alexander marched into what is now Iraq. In a huge battle near the city of Gaugamela, the Macedonians destroyed the Persian army and caused the Persian emperor, Darius III, to flee. Darius was later murdered by one of his own officers.

With the defeat of Darius, Alexander was essentially master of the Persian world. His troops marched to Persepolis, one of Persia’s capitals, and burned it to the ground as a sign of their victory.

Alexander, however, was not yet satisfied with the size of his empire. He led his army deeper into Asia, winning more victories against the peoples of Central Asia. Still wanting more, he led his army to the Indus, perhaps intending to conquer India. His soldiers, however, had had enough. When they refused to proceed any farther from home, Alexander was forced to turn back to the west.

End of the Empire
The empire Alexander had built was the largest the world had ever seen, but he did not rule that empire for very long. In 323 BC while in the city of Babylon, Alexander fell ill. After a few days, he died. At the time of his death, Alexander was only 33 years old.


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I write this instead of doing my high school homework. I, a sixteen year old boy, am taking control of my education.

First, what matters is what I think education means. I suggest a programme, that stands parallel to what the Wikimedia Foundation illustrates, where all that a school should be is an enormous resource. It's teachers should be resources, whatever and how ever that means to students. Students should study only where their interests and their readings take them. The "well rounded" dogma of contemporary school has missed the boat, they have missed an opportunity to sponsor true Renaissance. Da Vinci learned the things he did because they fascinated him or because he sought understanding. We should free this nature of intention, natural interest, and natural motivation from all forms of contemporary schooling. I know the main reason I do not enjoy math is because i have no stellar aptitude for it. I love logic, and I recognize the intersection. i know, that is I were allowed to dive into these topics on my own, I would find interest and excitement in this study. I gave found that i love physics, even though all it is is math, and that I am no physics guru, I don't want to be and I just enjoy the exercise and the logical discovery. Why must all students who want to study high level English then struggle with high level Math, just to afford the opportunity to to learn at a high level institution about English? This harms our ability to harness potential, not "separate the chaff from the wheat" because the human race has no idiots. People with athletic talents should spend their day doing such, pushing the limits of human physiology as far as they can by their own motivation.

The motivation of money is a false motivation. You should be doing work that you would do for free. Who, you say, would clean the gutters, work on the factory line. My answer is if their is no one that is willing to do the labor for itself, then we as a society have no right to have this thing. We cannot just have poor people be our reserve army of labor, to sweep the kitchens and tend our children, pump our gas and make our iPods. We need people who love to solve problems solve our problems and have people who love to build things, build things.

I want to to learn and so i want to drop out of school. Ironic, isn't it? I am what teachers dream about, a kid who is filled with an unending stamina for intellectual pursuit, and I hate school...something is wrong.

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User talk:Megan O'Connell

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Motivation and emotion
Hi. Welcome to the unit and to Wikiversity! I look forward to learning with you and I hope you find the topic and the unit rewarding. Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions or would like help at any point along the way. Sincerely, James Neill, -- Jtneill - Talk - c 08:29, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:56, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

title: User talk:Megan O'Connell