First Battle of the Marne
battle · 1914 AD
First Battle of the Marne, a battle recorded 1914 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- 6 September 1914 AD
- War
- World War I
- Side 1
- France — led by Joseph Joffre, John French
- Side 2
- German Empire — led by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger
- Result
- Allied victory; the German advance on Paris halted
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 AD | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | Fought along a front of some 200 km; the point marks its centre. |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)