Battle of Lorraine | |||||||
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Part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front of the First World War | |||||||
![]() French infantry surprised by the Germans while cooking at Saarburg (20-21 August 1914, illustration by P. Halke) | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
6th Army | Second Army | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
66,500 | |||||||
Lorraine, in the modern French region of Grand Est. From 1871 to 1919, German Lorraine was part of the German empire. |
The Battle of Lorraine (14 August – 7 September 1914) was a battle on the Western Front during the First World War. The armies of France and Germany had completed their mobilisation, the French with Plan XVII, to conduct an offensive through Lorraine and Alsace into Germany and the Germans with Aufmarsch II West, for an offensive in the north through Luxembourg and Belgium into France, supplemented with attacks in the south to prevent the French from transferring troops to the greater threat in the north.