What the records say
- When
- 14 Aug 1914 – 25 Aug 1914
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 48.80° N, 6.72° E
- Location
- Lorraine
- Outcome
- German victory
- Belligerents
- France vs Germany
Battle of Lorraine
1914 Western Front battle of World War I
The Battle of Lorraine was a battle on the Western Front during the First World War. The armies of France and Germany had completed their mobilisation, the French with Plan XVII, to conduct an offensive through Lorraine and Alsace into Germany and the Germans with Aufmarsch II West, for an offensive in the north through Luxembourg and Belgium into France, supplemented with attacks in the south to prevent the French f…
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