WWI · BATTLE SITE ·
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
On the WWI map as “The Marne”
5-12 Sep 1914 — Joffre’s counterstroke catches the German First and Second Armies 40 km from Paris with a gap between them. Six hundred Paris taxis carry one brigade to the front; the whole German line falls back to the Aisne — and digs in.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Schlieffen Plan and the Marne (chapter 4 of WWI)
- Atlas
- The Great War, 1871–1923
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