Battle of Lorraine

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.

Battle of Lorraine
Part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front of the First World War

Western Front, 2 August 1914
Date14–25 August 1914
Location
Lorraine
48°48′N 06°43′E
Result German victory
Belligerents
 Germany  France
Commanders and leaders
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen
Rupprecht of Bavaria
Josias von Heeringen
Auguste Dubail
Noël de Castelnau
Ferdinand Foch
Strength
6th Army Second Army
Casualties and losses
66,500
Lorraine
Lorraine, in the modern French region of Grand Est. From 1871 to 1919, German Lorraine was part of the German empire.
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