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The First Battle of the Marne is best remembered for the approximately 600 Parisian taxicabs, mainly Renault AGs, commandeered by French authorities and used to transport 6, 000 French reserve infantry troops to the battle.
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* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.
They include: the Second Battle of Athenry ( 1316 ); the battle of Knockdoe ( 1504 ); the Battle of the Yellow Ford ( 1596 ); the First Battle of Curlew Pass ( 1599 ); the Battle of Dungans Hill ( 1647 ); the Battle of Castlebar ( 1798 ), and the Battle of the Bogside ( 1969 ).
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
* 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah.
* 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
In 168 BC, the Romans invaded Macedonia and overthrew the king, Perseus, in the First Battle of Pydna.
* 69 – After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
* 1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
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In the campaign of 1799 he once more opposed Jourdan, whom he defeated in the battles of Ostrach and Stockach, following up his success by invading Switzerland and defeating Masséna in the First Battle of Zürich, after which he re-entered Germany and drove the French once more over the Rhine.
* First Battle of Guararapes ( 1648 ): Decisive Brazilian victory that helped end Dutch occupation.
He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.
The Battle of Pharsalus ended the wars of the First Triumvirate.
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French dragoons escorting German prisoners, after the First Battle of the Marne ( 1914 ).
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins.
In 1914, following the German invasion of France, the First Battle of the Marne ( 5 – 12 September ) and the capture of Saint-Mihiel ( on 24 September ) created a salient around Verdun.
After the German invasion of France had been halted at the First Battle of the Marne, in September 1914, the war of movement gave way to trench warfare with neither side being able to achieve a successful breakthrough.
The German army came within of Paris, but at the First Battle of the Marne ( 6 – 12 September ), French and British troops were able to force a German retreat by exploiting a gap which appeared between the 1st and 2nd Armies, ending the German advance into France.
Indeed, the Belgians delayed the Germans and thus allowed the French armies to resist the German attacks which became the First Battle of the Marne.
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The Second Battle of the Marne (), or Battle of Reims ( 15 July – 6 August 1918 ) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.
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The Battle of the Marne () ( also known as the Miracle of the Marne ) was a First World War battle fought between 5 and 12 September 1914.
Over two million men fought in the First Battle of the Marne, of whom more than 500, 000 were killed or wounded.
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Nevertheless, taking his period of office as a whole, he probably did more to improve the Plan than to damage its prospects. He concludes that, overall, the logistical shortcomings of the Plan did not contribute to the German defeat at the First Battle of the Marne.
The result was a French victory at the First Battle of the Marne, which decisively ended the German advance.
The failures of the German army in the West resulted in defeat at the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914, a stalemate, trench warfare, and a two-front war for Germany.
He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914.
Joffre helped to retrieve the situation through retreat and counterattack at the First Battle of the Marne.
He combined the French 9th and 10th armies into the French 6th army in under two weeks before turning it over to Général d ' Armée Joseph Gallieni in the First Battle of the Marne.
Kitchener travelled to France for an emergency meeting on 2 September 1914, to re-organise French's thinking and get him to take part in the counter-offensive at the First Battle of the Marne.
Foch was then selected to command the newly formed Ninth Army during the First Battle of the Marne with Maxime Weygand as his Chief of Staff.
* First Battle of the Marne ( 1914 )
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