The Failure Of France's Victory In World War One

The war that was fought from July 1914 to November 1918 was the first ever World War. The casualty count reached into the millions. The Allied Powers and the Central Powers have fought many bloody and courageous battles like the first Battle of the Marne, Battle of Tannenberg, Battle of Somme, and the Battle of Verdun win the war.
The first Battle of the Marne was fought between September 5 and 12 in 1914. Germany and the allies of France and Britain fought in this battle. The French used taxis in Paris to help move troops briskly around the battlefield. The taxis became the symbol of France’s will to win the war. This was the first major battle where reconnaissance planes were utilized to discover the enemy’s military positions. The German forces were exhausted by the time they had arrived at Paris. Some of the soldiers had marched over 150 miles. Over two million soldiers engaged in battle with more than half a million casualties. The Allies came up victorious.

The German Eighth Army and the Russian Second Army fought in this battle. The Russians used unencrypted radio transmissions to communicate. These were easily stopped by the Germans allowing theirselves to know exactly what the Russians were planning. Germany sent soldiers from the western front to help fight the Russians. This contributed to their failure to conquer France. Although the plan to defeat the Russians was Colonel Hoffmann's idea, it was Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff who were considered as heroes by the German press. The land where the battle was fought is part of Poland today. It was Colonel Max Hoffman who suggested the risky battle plans that helped the Germans to win the