For the 1918 and 1944 battles, see Second Battle of Mons and Battle of the Mons Pocket.
Battle of Mons
Part of the Battle of the Frontiers of the First World War
British soldiers from the Royal Fusiliers resting in the town square at Mons before entering the line prior to the Battle of Mons. The Royal Fusiliers faced some of the heaviest fighting in the battle and earned the first Victoria Cross of the war.
British withdraw to defensive line along Valenciennes–Maubeuge road before retreating 250 mi to outskirts of Paris
Belligerents
United Kingdom
German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Sir John French Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien Sir Douglas Haig
Alexander von Kluck
Strength
2 corps 1 cavalry division 1 cavalry brigade 300 guns
4 corps 3 cavalry divisions 600 guns
Casualties and losses
1,638
2,000–5,000
Mons
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Mons: Belgian town and capital of Hainaut
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Western Front
1914
Moresnet
Invasion of Belgium
Liège
Dinant
Namur
Frontiers
Lorraine
Ardennes
Charleroi
Mons
Trouée de Charmes
Great Retreat
Le Cateau
Étreux
1st St. Quentin
Maubeuge
Grand Couronné
1st Marne
1st Aisne
Antwerp
Race to the Sea
Yser
1st Ypres
Winter actions
1st Artois
1915
1st Champagne
Hartmannswillerkopf
Neuve Chapelle
2nd Ypres
2nd Artois
Hébuterne
2nd Champagne
Loos
3rd Artois
Gas: Wieltje
1916
The Bluff
Hohenzollern Redoubt
St Eloi
Hulluch
Wulverghem
Kink Salient
Vimy Ridge 1916
Mont Sorrel
Verdun
Boar's Head
1st Somme
Fromelles
1917
Ancre
Alberich
Nivelle offensive
Arras
Vimy
2nd Aisne
The Hills
Messines
Passchendaele
La Malmaison
Cambrai
1918
German spring offensive
Michael
The Lys
3rd Aisne
Belleau Wood
2nd Marne
Soissons
Amiens
Ailette
2nd Somme
Saint-Mihiel
St Quentin Canal
Meuse-Argonne
5th Ypres
2nd Cambrai
Courtrai
Sambre
Lys and Escaut
Associated articles
1914 Christmas truce
French Army mutinies
Western Front tactics, 1917
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German invasion of Belgium (1914)
Battles
Haelen
Liège
Dinant
Namur
Antwerp
Nete
Buggenhout
Yser
1st Ypres
Langemarck
Gheluvelt
Nonne Bosschen
Associated articles
Rape of Belgium
German occupation of Belgium
German occupation of Luxembourg
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Battle of the Frontiers 1914
Mulhouse
Haelen
Lorraine
Dinant
Ardennes
Rossignol
Charleroi
Mons
Trouée de Charmes
Grand Couronné
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st Army. Although the British fought well and inflicted disproportionate casualties on the numerically superior Germans, they were eventually forced to retreat due both to the greater strength of the Germans and the sudden retreat of the French Fifth Army, which exposed the British right flank. Though initially planned as a simple tactical withdrawal and executed in good order, the British retreat from Mons lasted for two weeks and took the BEF to the outskirts of Paris before it counter-attacked in concert with the French, at the Battle of the Marne.
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