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| | The German Plan - Why Liège? |
 | | Moltke most certainly took into consideration the fact that Germany still possessed the spoils of the Franco-Prussian War, Alsace and Lorraine, and France would fight vigorously for the return of the lost provinces to the fold. |
 | | Moltke's successor, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, resolved to cover the Russian mobilization on the Eastern Front with a single army, and to attack, and annihilate, France. |
 | | Schlieffen's successor, the elder Moltke's nephew, also Helmuth von Moltke, insisted on exact timetables and manpower strengths for his grand enveloping sweep around the left flank of the French Army. |
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