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Battle of the Frontiers, Battle of the Frontiers - Aftermath, Battle of the Frontiers - Alsace & Lorraine, Battle of the Frontiers - Ardennes offensive, Battle of the Frontiers - Charleroi & Mons, Battle of the Frontiers - Prelude
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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Battle of the Frontiers | | | |  Battle of the Frontiers: Encyclopedia II - World War I - CausesOn June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student. The Archduke was there to assert imperial authority over a disputed province. Princip was supported by pan-Serbian nationalists, with links to the Serbian military. Though this assassination is usually considered the immediate trigger for the war, its origins can be traced back to the complex web of alliances and counterbalan ...
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| | | | | Battle of the Frontiers: Encyclopedia II - Battle of the Frontiers - Charleroi & Mons By 20 August, Lanrezac's Fifth Army had begun to concentrate on a 40 km front along the Sambre, centred on Charleroi and extending east to the Belgian fortress of Namur. On his left, the Cavalry Corps of General Sordet linked the Fifth Army with the British Expeditionary Force at Mons. Lanrezac's army of 15 divisions, weakened by the transfer of troops to Lorraine, was confronted by the 38 German divisions from the Second ...
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| | | | | Battle of the Frontiers: Encyclopedia II - Battle of the Frontiers - Alsace & Lorraine On 7 August the first French attack of the war, known as the Battle of Mulhouse, began in the south when the French VII Corps advanced into southern Alsace with the objective of seizing the towns of Mulhouse and Colmar. Mulhouse was taken without a fight on 8 August, causing enormous celebrations in France, however a German counterattack commenced on 9 August, forcing the French to withdraw the next day. In response to the repulse of VII Corps, Joffre sent four additional divisions to form th ...
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| | | | | Battle of the Frontiers: Encyclopedia II - Battle of the Frontiers - Ardennes offensive Under Plan XVII, the French offensive against the German centre through the lower Ardennes was to involve the Third, Fourth and Fifth French armies, but by the time the offensive was due to start Plan XVII was beginning to crumble. General Charles Lanrezac, commander of the northern-most Fifth Army, alarmed by German progress in Belgium, sought permission to realign his forces away from the Ardennes and towards Belgium, shifting west into the angle between the Sambre and Meuse rivers. Joffre remained dismissive of the threat but on 12 August ...
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