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The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne (French: miracle de la Marne) was a battle of the First World War fought from the 5th to the 12th September 1914. [4] The German army invaded France with a plan for winning the war in 40 days by occupying Paris and destroying the French and British armies (Allies ...
The Battle of the Frontiers is a general name for all of the operations of the French armies until the Battle of the Marne. [13] A series of encounter battles began between the German, French and Belgian armies, on the German-French frontier and in southern Belgium on 4 August 1914.
The Battle of the Marne. London: Elek Books, 1965. (Translation of La Bataille de la Marne, published by Editions B. Arthaud, 1964.) Michelin Guide The Marne Battle-Fields (1914) 1925; Perris, George Herbert. The Battle of the Marne. London: Methuen, 1920. Porch, Douglas. The March to the Marne: The French Army, 1870–1914 (Cambridge, 1981 / ...
There were two battles of the Marne, taking place near the Marne River in Marne, France during World War I: First Battle of the Marne (1914) Second Battle of the Marne (1918)
In the months after the Battle of the Marne, German troops faced a succession of battles against combined British and French armies, known as the "Race to the Sea," where the opposing forces attempted to "turn the other’s flank" in a contest to reach the North Sea.
The Battle of Lorraine (14 August – 7 September 1914) was a battle on the Western Front during the First World War.The armies of France and Germany had completed their mobilisation, the French with Plan XVII, to conduct an offensive through Lorraine and Alsace into Germany and the Germans with Aufmarsch II West, for an offensive in the north through Luxembourg and Belgium into France ...
The Battle of the Frontiers is a general name for all of the operations of the French armies until the Battle of the Marne. [1] A series of encounter battles began between the German, French and Belgian armies on the German–French frontier and in southern Belgium on 4 August 1914.
The Second Battle of the Marne (French: Seconde Bataille de la Marne; 15 – 18 July 1918) was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when an Allied counterattack, led by French forces and supported by several hundreds of Renault FT tanks , overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank ...