![]() ![]() After having retreated for weeks after the Battle of the Frontiers, the French armies and the British Expeditionary Force counter-attacked on a 300-kilometer-long front. The First Battle of the Marne took place from 6 to 11 September 1914. The two events are clearly different in terms of military and diplomatic plans, not to mention the memory culture around them. The term “Battle of the Marne”, whether it refers to the first or the second, shows Paris’s will to make these events comprehensible and cannot be disconnected from a historical rewriting process that was, in a certain manner, a political tool that aimed to establish France’s leadership in warfare. Each time, the battlefields were wide areas not necessarily located around the Marne river. ![]() Firstly, these battles were two culminating points of the First World War, which resulted in clear German defeats. The first and second battles of the Marne have much in common. ![]()
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