Battle of Mörchingen and Dieuze

1914 CE.

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The Battle of Morhange (French: bataille de Morhange; German: Schlacht bei Mörchingen) was one of the first major battles of the First World War during its initial phase (the Battle of the Frontiers). It took place between 19 and 20 August 1914 on a front stretching for nearly 30 kilometers involving the villages of Morhange and Dieuze in the present-day Moselle department, then German territory. The battle pitted the French 2nd Army, commanded by General Édouard de Castelnau, against the German 6th Army, commanded by Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria. The French 2nd Army comprised three main units: the 20th Army Corps commanded by General Ferdinand Foch, the 15th Army Corps and the 16th Army Corps. After a difficult week of advancing through German Lorraine, resulting in considerable losses among the French ranks, the exhausted soldiers approached the Battle of Morhange.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Morhange, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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