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  2. Battle of the Frontiers - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Frontiers (French: Bataille des Frontières; German: Grenzschlachten; Dutch: Slag der Grenzen) comprised battles fought along the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War.

  3. List of military engagements of World War I - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Charleroi, another of the frontier battles, was an action taking place 12–23 August 1914. The battle was joined by the French Fifth Army, advancing north towards the River Sambre, and the German Second and Third armies, moving southwest through Belgium. The Fifth army was meant to join the Third and Fourth armies in their attack ...

  4. German invasion of Belgium (1914) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Charleroi was fought on 21 August 1914, between French and German forces and was part of the Battle of the Frontiers. The French were planning an attack across the river Sambre, when the Germans attacked and the French Fifth army was forced into a retreat, which prevented the German army from enveloping and destroying the French.

  5. Rearguard Affair of Étreux - Wikipedia

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    Der Weltkrieg: 1914 The Battle of the Frontiers and Pursuit to the Marne. Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War. Vol. I. Part 1. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-55458-373-7. Websites "The Étreux Rearguard Action, 27 August 1914".

  6. Deadliest single days of World War I - Wikipedia

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    On August 22, 1914, during the Battle of the Frontiers, five separate French armies engaged the German invaders independently of each other. Across all those battlefields, on that single day, 27,000 French soldiers lost their lives protecting their country.

  7. Timeline of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Battle of the Frontiers. The Germans obtain a victory against the British Expeditionary Force and France's Fifth Army. August 7 – 10 Western: Battle of Mulhouse, a phase of the Battle of the Frontiers. August 8 Politics: Montenegro declares war on Germany. [24] Politics: Sweden and Norway declare neutrality in the general conflict August 9 ...

  8. Battle of Mons - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War.It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders.

  9. German Army order of battle (1914) - Wikipedia

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    This is the German Army order of battle on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. ... Battle of the Frontiers - 2 August to 26 August 1914. German corps areas 1914.