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Hace 4 días · If the Schlieffen Plan succeeded, Germany’s armies would simultaneously encircle the French army from the north, overrun all of northeastern France, and capture Paris, thus forcing France into a humiliating surrender.
Hace 4 días · The First Battle of the Marne succeeded in pushing the Germans back for a distance of 40 to 50 miles and thus saved the capital city of Paris from capture. In this respect it was a great strategic victory, since it enabled the French to renew their confidence and to continue the war.
Hace 4 días · On September 4 Moltke decided to abandon the original Schlieffen Plan and substituted a new one: the German 4th and 5th armies should drive southeastward from the Ardennes into French Lorraine west of Verdun and then converge with the southwestward advance of the 6th and 7th armies from Alsace against the Toul–Épinal line of ...
Hace 3 días · Any writing on Schlieffen is incomplete without focusing on the Schlieffen plan itself. In the following post in this series, we will explore the Schlieffen plan itself, some of its influence, and also the scholarly and historical debates on the plan itself, and whether it really did exist as a plan at all.
Hace 3 días · Schlieffen Plan: The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's strategic plan for victory in a possible future war where it would be surrounded by enemies on two fronts (France on west & Russia on east). It was named after its mastermind, German Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen.
Schlieffen plan was an army deployment plan for a decisive (war-winning) offensive against the France. German forces were to invade France through the Netherlands and Belgium rather than across the common border. To avoid a two front was this was to be completed before Russia fully mobilized. This famously failed in WWI.
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