Battle of Marne

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in World War I. Result: The Allies repelled the German advance into France.

By the evening of September 4, 1914, the exhausted German First and Second Armies had reached a line thirty miles east of Paris. General Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre issued an order for an Anglo-French counteroffensive to begin on September 6, but the battle began a day early when troops dispatched from the Paris garrison by taxi ran into the right flank of the westernmost German army (the First). As the commander of the First Army pulled...

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