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Battle of the Frontiers
Part of the Western Front of the First World War

Map of operations on the frontiers
Date7 August – 6 September 1914
Location
Lorraine, French and Belgian Ardennes
49°00′N 06°00′E / 49.000°N 6.000°E / 49.000; 6.000
Result German victory
Belligerents
Battle of the Frontiers France
Battle of the Frontiers Belgium
Battle of the Frontiers United Kingdom
Battle of the Frontiers Germany
Commanders and leaders
French Third Republic Joseph Joffre
Battle of the Frontiers King Albert I
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland John French
German Empire Helmuth von Moltke
Strength
French Third Republic 62 divisions[1]
Battle of the Frontiers 6 divisions[1]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 6 divisions[1]
German Empire 68 divisions[1]
Casualties and losses
Battle of the Frontiers 329,000 (6 August – 5 September)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 29,597 (August–September)

The Battle of the Frontiers (French: Bataille des Frontières, German: Grenzschlachten, Dutch: Slag der Grenzen) 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 strategies of the French Chief of Staff General Joseph Joffre with Plan XVII and an offensive adaptation of the German Aufmarsch II deployment plan by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. The German concentration on the right (northern) flank, was to wheel through Belgium and attack the French in the rear.

The German advance was delayed by the movement of the French Fifth Army (General Charles Lanrezac) towards the north-west to intercept them and the presence of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the French left. The Franco-British troops were driven back by the Germans, who were able to invade northern France. French and British rearguard actions delayed the Germans, allowing the French time to transfer forces on the eastern frontier to the west to defend Paris, culminating in the First Battle of the Marne.

  1. ^ a b c d Zuber 2002, p. 253.

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