The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The evidence suggests that the story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short story by Arthur Machen, rumours, mass hysteria and urban legend, some actual visions seen after the battle and also possibly deliberately seeded propaganda.

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  • The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The evidence suggests that the story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short story by Arthur Machen, rumours, mass hysteria and urban legend, some actual visions seen after the battle and also possibly deliberately seeded propaganda.
  • Les anges de Mons sont un groupe d'anges censés avoir protégé les membres de l'armée britannique durant la bataille de Mons au début de la Première Guerre mondiale. Les sceptiques suggèrent que l'histoire est fictive, engendrée par la combinaison d'une nouvelle patriotique de l'écrivain fantastique Arthur Machen, de rumeurs et d'une légende urbaine, quelques apparitions réelles vues après la bataille et probablement aussi de la propagande délibérément propagée.
  • モンスの天使（もんすのてんし）とは、第一次世界大戦中に起きた超常現象である。
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  • Arthur Machen
  • It seemed that my light fiction had been accepted by the congregation of this particular church as the solidest of facts; and it was then that it began to dawn on me that if I had failed in the art of letters, I had succeeded, unwittingly, in the art of deceit. This happened, I should think, some time in April, and the snowball of rumour that was then set rolling has been rolling ever since, growing bigger and bigger, till it is now swollen to a monstrous size.
  • Preface to The Bowmen
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  • The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The evidence suggests that the story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short story by Arthur Machen, rumours, mass hysteria and urban legend, some actual visions seen after the battle and also possibly deliberately seeded propaganda.
  • Les anges de Mons sont un groupe d'anges censés avoir protégé les membres de l'armée britannique durant la bataille de Mons au début de la Première Guerre mondiale. Les sceptiques suggèrent que l'histoire est fictive, engendrée par la combinaison d'une nouvelle patriotique de l'écrivain fantastique Arthur Machen, de rumeurs et d'une légende urbaine, quelques apparitions réelles vues après la bataille et probablement aussi de la propagande délibérément propagée.
  • モンスの天使（もんすのてんし）とは、第一次世界大戦中に起きた超常現象である。
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  • Angels of Mons
  • Anges de Mons
  • モンスの天使
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