Battle of the Marne

ww2 The troth of the Marne By Owen Fish In September 1914, the firstly Battle of the Marne took place. It is called the Battle of the Marne because it took place at the River Marne out berth of Paris France. The German forces were clap the cut capital after trespassing(a) places like Belgium and North Eastern France. The Germans were expect to win this battle and because of that, the french organization fled Paris to Bordeaux.The Weapons used during this battle and many battles of this time was bolt action rifles, with the Germans development the Mauser Gewehr 98. When the Battle began the French commanding officer in Chief, Joseph Joffre, launched a counter feeler by attacking one side of the German line. When he attacked the one side, fall in of the line helped out the people on the side, creating a gap between the both German armies. When this gap formed, the French promenade forced it wider and wider by attacking the other side of the gap.On September 8 1914, French troops launched a surprise attack on the second German army, only widening the gap between the 2 armies. On September the 9th, the German chief of staff, Helmuth Von Moltke, ordered a retreat by the two German armies because of poor confabulation between them. When they retreated the Allied forces followed them, only when not too quickly. After slightly 40 miles of retreating from the Marne river, the Germans camped out and dug trenches, that lastly led to trench warfare.The French armies befuddled more or less 250,000 soldiers at the Battle of the Marne and the German armies are believed to have lost intimately the same numbers, besides no ordained numbers are available. The British BEF, which helped the French armies throughout the battle lost about 12,733 men. The Allied Victory at the Battle of the Marne not only was an Allied Victory, but it ended any German hopes of stop the First World War quickly. French Soldiers at the Battle