The second Battle of the Marne was the last major German offensive of the First World War. Convinced that the war could be won by an attack in Flanders, a region that stretches from the North of ...

In the first days of September Joffre and Gallieni ... could only be crossed via four relatively narrow causeways). In short the Battle of the Marne was actually three separate but interrelated ...

The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to ...

The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to ...

He participated in the first of three draft registrations of World ... were assigned a 12-kilometer line along the Marne River from Chateau-Thierry to Varennes," wrote Jeffrey Gaul in "History ...

OISE-AISNE AMERICAN CEMETERY, France -- Thousands of headstones silently testify to the American sacrifice at the Second Battle of the Marne 100 years ago -- a sacrifice the chief of the National ...

In 1914, World War I's first Battle of the Marne took place outside Paris, France. The allied forces of France and Britain defeated Germany, resulting in the deaths of some 150,000 people.

JULY 15, 1918: Germany launched its last offensive of the First World War after attacking the Allies in Second Battle of the Marne on this day in 1918. More than half a million men assaulted largely ...