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Battle Of The Frontiers: Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Frontiers
The Battle of the Frontiers was a series of battles fought along the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium shortly after the...
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Battle Of The Frontiers: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Frontiers - Prelude
The objective of the French Plan XVII was to recapture the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, lost in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, pinning...
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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 t...
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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 Fre...
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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 in...
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