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
The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, the
Battle of the Frontiers
…Battle of the Frontiers Part of the Western Front of the First World War Map of operations on the frontiers Date 7 August – 6 September 1914 Location Lorraine, French and Belgian Ardennes Result German…
Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker; A German Gotha G.IV heavy bomber; American troops with Renault FT tanks moving in the Argonne Forest to the front line during the
A 1913 French bayonet charge
The German infantry on the battlefield on 7 August 1914
A German trench on the Western Front in 1915