Battle of the Frontiers
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The Battle of the Frontiers comprised battles fought along the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. The battles resolved the military
Belgian troops, with machine-guns pulled by dogs, photographed during the Battle of the Frontiers
Headline in Le Soir, 4 August 1914
French capture of Mulhouse, 8 August 1914
Initial moves, 7–20 August 1914
Plan XVII
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Plan XVII was the name of a "scheme of mobilisation and concentration" which the French Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre developed from 1912 to 1914, to be put into effect by the French Army in the even
Joseph Joffre
