The First Battle of the Marne River was a battle on the Western Front of World War I, which took place from September 5 to 12, 1914. In this battle, the Allied forces finally defeated the German Empire army. The German army, which failed the battle, was forced to retreat, and the two sides of the war experienced trench warfare for 4 years.
In this battle, the German army was commanded by the Chief of Staff Moltke . A total of 900,000 German troops were mobilized. The purpose of the battle was to break through the French defense line and the front of the troops pointed directly at the French capital Paris. The commander-in-chief of the French army, Xiafei , used 64 French divisions, 6 British divisions, a total of about 1.1 million people to fight, and waited for an opportunity to regain France's lost land in the French-Prussian War.
The two sides fought for three months. Due to the French resistance and the British Expeditionary Force arrived in time. In addition, thanks to the German commander-in-chief Moltke for his command mistakes, the German army was forced to retreat in the end. At this point, the Battle of the Marne River , which attacked each other on more than 300 kilometers of fronts, finally ended. During the battle, the warring sides successively invested nearly 2 million troops, with casualties exceeding more than 300,000. Among them, 33,000 Allied troops were killed and 122,000 were injured; 43,000 German troops were killed and 173,000 were injured
The following group of pictures reflect the original appearance of the French battlefield on the Western Front at that time. The photos include destroyed villages, burned churches, and French soldiers who held their positions in the cold, etc.... All of them reflect the cruelty of the war at that time.
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Currently this collection is collected in French National Library (delete infringement)
