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In World War I, one of the great miracles happened on 24th August 1914, just weeks after the war began, to save the British Army from disaster – the Angels of Mons. Judging from Dunkirk, the British Army frequently needed a lot of divine intervention to save it.The Historic UK website gives this account of the miracle, which I’ve taken the liberty to edit for dramatic effect. This is the story it told:a British soldier recalling, while shooting during the Battle of Mons, his visits to a vegetarian restaurant in London where “he had once or twice eaten eccentric dishes of cutlets made of lentils and nuts that pretended to be steak”. He recalls that all the plates had an image of St George on them, with the Latin motto “Adsit Anglis Sanctus Georgius” (“May Saint George be a present help to the English”). The rifleman begins to mutter the phrase as he shoots.On experiencing a sudden electric shock in his body, he hears a great voice crying “Array, array, array!” Saint George has heeded his prayer for assistance, and arrived with “a long line of shapes, with a shining about them” who take aim and shoot arrows at the enemy. They are the spirits of archers who served at Agincourt. By the time the engagement is over, 10,000 of the enemy lie dead. The battle is an inexplicable success for the British that leaves the Germans wondering what deadly secret weapon their enemies had at their disposal.And now in World War II, thanks to the born again Christian General JCH Lee, as the Germans launched another attempt at world conquest, the Battle of the Bulge, divine intervention saved the American Army from disaster in the Miracle on the Meuse. A miracle that I would compare to the miracle of the loaves and the fishes that Jesus performed when he was delivering one of his sermons, as retold in Matthew 14:13-21 when Jesus fed 5,000 men, and an unspecified number of women and children, greater in number than 5,000 with just five loaves of bread and two fishes. Now I’m going to share with you that story that no historian has ever acknowledged.Tag words: Miracle on the Meuse; Angels of Mons; St George; Agincourt; World War II; General JCH Lee; Battle of the Bulge; Jesus; Matthew 14:13-21; the loaves and the fishes; Russell Weigley; General Bradley; First Army; General Aurand; Communications Zone; ComZ; General Smith; General Patton; Hank H Cox; The General Who Wore Six Stars; Beetle Smith; Eisenhower; Ardennes offensive; John Kennedy Ohl; General Somervell; Supplying the Troops; Reconversion; David Nelson; War Production Board;
