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	World War One Battles
		The Battle of Charleroi, one of the Battles of the Frontiers, was one of the key battles on the Western Front in 1914, and one of the early major German victories.
		The Battle of Le Cateau was essentially a rearguard action fought by the British in late August 1914, during the general Allied retreat along the Western Front in the face of sustained German successes at the four Battles of the Frontiers.
		The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was the second defeat of the war for Russian army by the Germans, with he first being the defeat sufferred at Tannenberg in late August.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/WW1_Battles1.htm (15644 words)

	Aisne
		First I was tempted to hasten and precede them, but a refractory nut delayed me, so I let them pass, tailing an affable sergeant at the rear, who threw me a cheery word as he jogged by.
		Our passage of the Aisne and our pressing forward to Vendresse and up to the Chemin des Dames, a great east-and-west highway beyond, was so important a move, and bore such prospect of result, that it was but natural we should be in ardent expectation of a sight of the Rhine within the near future.
		The first one, thrown from detachment to detachment, was, "Pass the word back that no notice is to be taken of the white flag." Sinister message that, telling its own story.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/British_Front/Aisne_01.htm (5514 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		From the Aisne the Germans were deployed eastwards as follows; the First Army (von Kluck), the Seventh (von Heeringen) and the second (von Bülow).
		As the Aisne offensive drew to a close Joffre moved his forces north-west in an attempt to attack the exposed German right flank at Noyon; the enemy responded by moving reserves to the area with the aim of outflanking the Allies themselves.
		The Battle of the Aisne and its sequel marked the closing stages of the war of movement and the beginnings of trench warfare.
	www.westernfrontassociation.com /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/aisne1.htm (356 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The First Battle of the Aisne, 1914
		The First Battle of the Aisne was a follow-up offensive by the Allied forces against the right wing of the German First and Second armies (under von Kluck and von Bulow) in retreat after September 1914's First Battle of the Marne.
		As it was, the progress of the Allied forces, British and French, was slow, owing to fatigue and to caution.
		Two further battles took place at the Aisne, during April-May 1917 (the Second Battle of the Aisne), and May-June 1918 (the Third Battle of the Aisne).
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/aisne1.htm (496 words)

	1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment:- The Pursuit to and Battle of The Aisne, 1914
		The Pursuit to and Battle of The Aisne, 1914.
		The slopes of the plateau overlooking the Aisne on the north and south are of varying steepness, and are covered with numerous patches of wood, which also stretch upwards and backwards over the edge on to the top of the high ground.
		Thus closed the Battle of the Aisne, and so far as the 1st and 4th Middlesex Regiments were concerned, neither Battalion had much of the excitement of battle; the enemy's shell fire causing most of the casualties, of which, however, there are no records in the official diaries.
	freespace.virgin.net /howard.anderson/aisne1914.htm (1359 words)

	First battle of the Marne, 5-10 September 1914 (France)
		First Battle of the Marne, 5-10 September 1914 (France)
		General Kluck, in command of the German First Army, thought that he had knocked the BEF out of the war, and that the French troops he encountered on his right were merely scattered survivors.
		The Battle of the Marne ended any chance of a quick German victory; gained Joffre a reputation as the saviour of France, and saw Moltke replaced by Falkenhayn as chief of the German General Staff.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_marne1st.html (510 words)

	The Battle of the Aisne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The war diary of the 1st South Wales Borderers on the Aisne is an excellent and graphic illustration of the fighting.
		The Aisne was, for the British, a case of sending infantry in small groups up the slopes in an attempted frontal attack on entrenched German defences.
		The BEF was reinforced by two Regular Divisions of the Indian Army, both of which contained several British battalions, and the first units of the Territorial Force to cross to France.
	www.1914-1918.net /bat4.htm (1433 words)

	1st Battle of Aisne
		After the first battle at the Marne in September, 1914, the German Army was able to deploy its forces along the north bank of the River Aisne, a tributary of the Oise.
		The French Army (5th and 6th) and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) launched a frontal assault at the Aisne on 13th September.
		The Aisne was the scene of two more important battles: 2nd Battle of the Aisne (16th April, 1917 - 9th May, 1917) and 3rd Battle of the Aisne (27th May, 1918 - 6th June, 1918).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWaisne.htm (335 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - The First Battle of the Aisne: Sir John French's Special Order of the Day, 11 ...
		Reproduced below is the special Order of the Day issued by British Army Commander-in-Chief Sir John French in the immediate aftermath of the Allied success at the First Battle of the Marne in early September 1914 and shortly into the follow-up First Battle of the Aisne.
		In his special Order French congratulated the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) for their conduct during both battles, and suggested that the German Army would, in spite of being presently well entrenched, shortly be obliged to continue its retreat as "a beaten enemy".
		When we were brought face to face with a position of extraordinary strength, carefully entrenched and prepared for defence by an army and staff which are thorough adepts in such work, throughout the 13th and 14th, that position was most gallantly attacked by the British forces and the passage of the Aisne effected.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/aisne_frenchorderoftheday.htm (345 words)

	The Great War - Western Front - James Mowbray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Battle of the Ardennes; French 3rd and 4th Armies strike the pivot of the Schlieffen Plan turning movement formed by the 4th and 5th German Armies; French forced to retire.
		Battle of the Sambre [River]; French 5th Army is repulsed while attempting to move into the Sambre-Meuse angle by the German 2nd and 3rd Armies; French forced to retreat.
		Battle of Cambrai saw the introduction of large scale tank employment, with 200 British tanks leading the attack, which they led so far that the infantry couldn't keep up, and almost all were lost through fuel exhaustion and lack of supports.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/mowbray/gw-west.htm (1520 words)

	World War I - North Texas Vets - Some Gave All, All Gave Some - None Will Be Forgotten
		It is interesting to note that, when the British attacked on the first day of the battle of the Somme, and lost massive amounts of men to a continuous hail of machine-gun fire, they did succeed in gaining some ground.
		The First World War was different from prior military conflicts: it was a meeting of 20th century technology with 19th century mentality and tactics.
		Battles such as Gallipoli for Australia and New Zealand, and Vimy Ridge for Canada led to increased national pride and a greater reluctance to remain subordinate to Britain, leading to the growth of diplomatic autonomy in the 1920s.
	www.northtexasvets.com /WarPages/WorldWarI.html (5156 words)

	The Forgotten Boys of the Aisne Battlefields
		Much further south are the battlefields of the Aisne and the Marne, larger in extent, partly to do with the fact that the clash of continental armies had greater space in which to manoeuvre.
		The Aisne passage is one of the main gateways to Paris from the East.
		The First Battle of the Aisne, September 1914, witnessed the beginnings of modern trench warfare.
	www.fairmile.fsbusiness.co.uk /aisne.htm (1563 words)

	Marne
		The Seventh had been hastily reformed during the retreat from the Marne and then was defensively repositioned between the First and Second Armies.
		As the Aisne offensive drew to a close, the Allies attempted to outflank the German First Army at Noyon, with the Germans responding by moving reserves in to outflank the French.
		The Battle First Battle of the Aisne and its immediate aftermath marked the closing of a war of movement on the Western Front, ushering in a four-year period of entrenched stalemate.
	home.comcast.net /~hpviser/ww1aisne1.htm (490 words)

	World War I
		Ardennes: (1) Battle of the Ardennes, 1914, (2) Battle of the Frontiers - Lorraine and Ardennes
		Marne, First Battle of (September 1914): (1) First Battle of the Marne from Spartacus
		Battle Ever, (3) Verdun by Lord Northcliffe, (4) Battle of Verdun 1916, (5) Battle of Verdun 1916, (6) Verdun from Spartacus Educational, (7) Verdun 1914 - 1918, (8) 21st February - 18th December 1916 - The Battle of Verdun from Western Front Association
	www.42explore2.com /ww1battles.htm (1826 words)

	French Military Victories
		Battle of Sentinum - 295 B.C. The Gauls and Samniums under Egnatius are defeated by Decius Mus and Fabius Maximus Rullianus of the Roman Republic.
		Battle of Telamon - 224 B.C. The out-numbered Gauls led by Concolitanus and Aneorestus are defeated by Atiliua Regulus and Aemilius Papus of the Roman Republic.
		Battle of Gergovia - 52 B.C. The Gallic Tribes led by Vercingetorix defeat the Roman Republic army of Julius Caesar.
	www.militaryfactory.com /battles/french_military_victories.asp (2245 words)

	Chemin des Dames: Background and the German Retreat of 1914
		To the north east of the town of Soissons in the Aisne lies a high ridge running west to east and nicknamed the Chemin des Dames.
		As everywhere after the 1st Battle of the Marne in September 1914 the advantage of territorial positioning lay with the retreating German Army.
		During the First Battle of the Aisne in September 1914 initial breaches of the Chemin des Dames by the French and British were subsequently repulsed by the Germans.
	www.webmatters.net /france/ww1_chemin.htm (385 words)

	The 1st Battle of Marne - The First World War - September 1914
		The Germans maneuvered the First army to meet the advance, leaving a gap of 50 km between their First and second armies.
		During This battle, such was the need for extra men on the front lines).
		By the end of September it was realised that frontal attacks on the German defenses would lead to very high casualty figures and the assault drew to a close.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /Year9/firstworldwar/1914/september.htm (448 words)

	Aisne
		And this description of a battle might well be written about two-score different scenes of the great Battle of the Rivers, that weeks'-long struggle of Titans that beat all world war records, and counted the losses by hundreds of thousands.
		They stand like stone, the first rank almost on the knee, long, deadly bayonets pointing upwards and outwards, the second rank crouching with bayonets ready to take the front rank's place should lance points reach home, the rear ranks volleying, eternally volleying, not wildly but rhythmically, as if the men were machine made.
		The first line of Zouaves is down; the second steps over their dead bodies, bracing their feet to the earth, fearing neither man nor devil, bent only on keeping the living line intact.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/British_Front/Aisne_03.htm (3345 words)

	Decades History Timelines - WWI (1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The French capital is moved from Paris to Bordeaux in preparation for the Battle of the Marne.
		First Battle of Marne, halts German advance, resulting in stalemate and trench warfare
		The First Battle of Aisne begins between German and French forces.
	www.decades.com /Timeline/n/1788.htm (334 words)

	Trench Warfare on the Aisne
		Opposition, which it was at first thought might possibly be of a rear-guard nature, not entailing material delay to our progress, developed and proved to be more serious than was anticipated.
		But, if this is so, the fighting is naturally on a scale which as to extent of ground covered and duration of resistance, makes it undistinguishable in its progress from what is known as a "pitched battle," though the enemy certainly showed signs of considerable disorganization during the earlier days of their retirement phase.
		Whether it was originally intended by them to defend the position they took up as strenuously a they have done, or whether the delay, gained for them during the 12th and 13th by their artillery, has enabled them to develop their resistance and force their line to an extent not originally contemplated cannot be said.
	net.lib.byu.edu /~rdh7/wwi/1914/aisne.html (1807 words)

	World War I, The Great War
		The men and the air battles that took place during this time were one part of the colorful history of World War.
		However, this was soon to pass, and the battle of this tragic, harrowing day was destined to be fought under a blue, cloudless sky, and a hot pitiless sun.
		As from their first assault, the Germans captured the Chemin des Dames; at midday they were on the Aisne river which they crossed on the bridges that the French had not had time to blow up.
	www.rockingham.k12.va.us /EMS/History_Pages/WWI/WWI.html (2929 words)

	St. Mihiel Trip-Wire: September 2003
		On September 14, 1914, during the First World War, near Verneuill in France, Private Wilson, who was born in Edinburgh in 1886, fought seven men to capture an enemy gun emplacement.
		He was a pre-war pioneer and was the first pilot to cross the Mediterranean.
		He became the first ace ever by allowing his Moraine Saulnier Type L to be equipped with deflector plates.
	www.worldwar1.com /tgws/smtw0903.htm (929 words)

	1914 q3 World History - Din Timelines
		Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen").
		Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army.
		Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris.
	din-timelines.com /1914.q3_timeline.shtml (1084 words)

	Battle of Ypres - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Battle of Ypres - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ypres, Battle of, name applied to three battles of World War I (1914-1918) fought in and around the town of Ypres (also known as Ieper), Belgium....
		Windows Live Search results on "Battle of Ypres"
	encarta.msn.com /Battle_of_Ypres.html (59 words)

	2nd Division, 1914-1918
		The Battle of the Ancre (tenth phase of the Battle of the Somme 1916)
		The Battle of St Quentin (first phase of the First Battles of the Somme 1918)
		The First Battle of Arras, 1918 (fourth phase of the First Battles of the Somme 1918)
	www.1914-1918.net /2div.htm (1031 words)

	20th Hussars at AllExperts
		A portion of the regiment also took part in the descent on Calabria, and was present at the battle of Maids.
		The Regiment became involved in actions that were typical of the role played by cavalry in the great war, the retreat from Mons, the battles of Marne and Aisne and the first battle of Ypres all saw the regiment involved and Infantry fighting from the trenches followed in the Messines area.
		A battle at Bourlon Wood was complemented with 5 officers and 218 other ranks from the 20th and the Regiment saw more dismounted action at Gouzeaucourt in 1917.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/20th_hussars.htm (734 words)

	ww1battles
		Battle of the Frontiers - Lorraine and Ardennes
		Battle of the Falklands : Includes diary excerpt from the captain of HMS Kent plus links to WWI Maritime War page.
		The First Battle of Aisne and the Race to the Sea
	www.fidnet.com /~weid/ww1battles.html (605 words)

	Robert Nivelle, (1856-1924), French General
		He played a key part in the battle of Verdun (21 February-18 December 1916), as one of General Petain's subordinates, and played a key part in the planning of successfull, if limited, French counterattacks towards the end of the battle.
		The British attack came first (battle of Arras (Battle of Arras, 9-15 April 1917), followed by the great French assault (Second battle of Aisne, 16 April- 1917).
		Within hours of the start of the battle, the French ground to a halt, but Nivelle kept on attacking, despite promises not to continue if the results were not good.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_nivelle.html (371 words)

	Amazon.com: "First Army": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		He also learned that General Omar Bradley, the commander of the First Army and his former subordinate, was now going to be his new boss, but Patton's happiness in rejoining the war...
		The First Army did not fire a single shell manufactured in America during its entire time in combat; except for four 14" naval...
		First Army Division Items at SoldierCity -- SoldierCity offers 1000's of items for all branches of service - including items for the First Army Division.
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