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The Battle of Liège was the first battle of the war, and could be considered a moral victory for the allies, as the heavily outnumbered Belgians held out against the German Army for 12 days. From 5 to 16 August 1914, the Belgians successfully resisted the numerically superior Germans, and inflicted surprisingly heavy losses on their aggressors.
Fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne. General Micheler (22 May 1917 – 10 June 1918) General Buat (10 June 1918 – 5 July 1918) General Berthelot (5 July 1918 – 7 October 1918) General Guillaumat (7 October 1918 – Armistice)
The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles), was deemed too physically and environmentally damaged by conflict for human habitation.
French Army order of battle (1914) Order of battle of the First Battle of the Marne; First Battle of Ypres order of battle; Order of battle for the Battle of the Somme; List of forces involved in the Battle of Amiens; List of French divisions in World War II
French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.
Battle of Albert (1916) Battle of Albert (1918) Allied Troop Movements During Operation Michael; Battle of Amiens (1918) First Battle of the Jordan; Battle of the Ancre (1918) Operations on the Ancre, January–March 1917; Battle of Arara; Battle of the Ardennes; Battle of Arras (1914) Battle of Arras (1915) First Battle of Artois; Second ...
On the night of 26 August 1914, the Allies withdrew from Le Cateau to St. Quentin. [10]With retreat all along the line, the commander-in-chief of the French forces, Joseph Joffre, needed the Fifth Army (General Charles Lanrezac) to hold off the German advance with a counter-attack, despite a 4 mi (6.4 km) separation from the French Fourth Army on the right flank and the continual retreat of ...
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/Entente).