The plan aimed to force the Ottoman Empire to surrender. The British and her allies planned to sail a huge fleet at the 65-mile Dardanelles water strait that linked the Mediterranean and Istanbul, the Ottoman capital they planned to capture. Lasting eight months, the 1915-1916 Battle of Gallipoli was launched by the combined British, French, Indian, New Zealand, Australia, and Canadian forces to knock out those of the Turkish Ottoman Empire that sided with Germany. By saving Paris from German capture and pushing them 45 miles away, it was a great strategic victory for France and enabled them to continue the war.
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That forced the battle-worn Germans shorn of supplies to full retreat by 11th September and withdrew northwards along Lower Aisne River. A counterattack by the 5th and 6th French and British armies resulted in the First Battle of the Marne. When on 9th September the German ambassador Bernhard Bullow learned the British force was advancing between his 2nd army and 1st army, he ordered Kluck’s men to retreat.
That compelled General Kluck to stop his advance to support his weak flank at Meaux. On the 3rd of September, French General Joseph Joffre ordered a halt to French retreat but three days later he reinforced the left flank and began an offensive. When the German 1st Army under General Alex von Kluck targeted points to the north of Paris, they had to pass into the valley of the River Marne and thus across the French defenses, and were exposed in doing so. The German northern wing troops got weak after the removal of 11 divisions to fight in Belgium and East Prussia. The French defense strengthened and they sent their troops to reinforce the left flank.
But a French offensive in Lorraine caused the Germans to counter-attack, and threw the French to a fortified barrier. If the plan worked, German armies would encircle the French Army from the north and capture Paris. The army would then turn west near the English Channel before turning south to cut off the French retreat. German Field Marshal Alfried Von Schlieffen devised a plan to conquer France by his armies invading it from Lille. In September of 1914, the First Battle of Marne marked the end of German incursion into France and the beginning of the trench warfare so widely associated with World War One. First Battle of Marne (September of 1914) That allowed the French to counter-attack at the First Battle of Marne. The only positive from the Battle of Tannenberg was diverting the Germans from attacking France. In total, the Russians lost about 250,000 men as well as military equipment. The Germans then turned on General Rennenkampf army in September and drove it out from East Prussia. By end of the month, the Germans had taken 92,000 prisoners and destroyed half of the Russian 2nd army. Although it was predicted that the Russian army would have a sliding victory, on account of being larger and more powerful, the Germans actually reigned victoriously. The Russian army was under the command of Grand Duke Nicholas, who had come to the aid of French soldiers who were under attack from the Germans. It is notable for being the first battle fought in the war to be fought on the Eastern Front.
The August of 1914 Battle of Tannenberg was fought between Russian and German soldiers. In this list, we take a look at some of the battles of the war that had lasting profound impacts. Throughout the war, terrible battles were fought between the central powers of the world, battles that were made even worse by the relatively recent invention of the machine gun. The 1918 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at the hands of 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip is seen as the catalyst for starting the war.
Lasting from 1914 to 1918, many horrendous battles were experienced during World War I. The World War I battles fought between major global superpowers opened up new frontiers in international warfare.
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