NOW: Ukraine and Russia are locked in a bloody, frustrating trench war, stalemated for years after the attempt to blitz through to Kyiv during Russia’s initial invasion was thrown back by the ...

This year marks the 100 th anniversary of the end of World War I. On Sunday ... the regiment held its ground at the Marne River near Paris, France, while other units retreated.

May 27, 1918, during World War I, the German army began advancing southward toward the Marne River east of Paris, reaching the north bank of the river in early June. In desperate fighting at the ...

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 ... the valley of the River Marne across ...