@PLazuric@France24_en What an ignorant comment, especially since Langrune-sur-Mer was in the British sector and it was British commandos and Canadians who landed on that beach
What I mean is that it's difficult to compare the American Indian Wars throughout the 19th century with the major conflicts between European powers, such as the War of the Spanish/Austrian Succession or the Napoleonic Wars.
You can't compare skirmishes like "Little Big Horn," which involved a few thousand men, to major European battles like Malplaquet, Denain, Fontenoy, Austerlitz, Borodino, etc.
Effectively, even US General George Marshall said of the 1st US Division in his memoirs: "This division was supposed to be the best in the active army, and yet it resembled the crudest of territorial units." According to him, most American soldiers were then "ignorant of the most rudimentary military training"
@ProudBavaria@GernmaiesFinn Are forts useless ? Look at why Rupprecht of Bavaria attacked towards Charmes in August 1914 and why he fell exactly into the French trap.
At the declaration of war on August 3, 1914, the French forces consisted of 5 armies comprising 19 army corps.
The French General Staff estimated they would face 5 German armies composed of 20 army corps: 15 army corps on the left flank (in Belgium) and 5 corps on the right flank (in Lorraine/Alsace).
In reality, there were 13 more army corps: 25 in Belgium and 8 in Lorraine/Alsace.
There were 33 German army corps against 19 French army corps during the Battle of the Frontiers.
You provide figures for the divisions involved, but how many were active divisions, reserve divisions, or territorial divisions ?
The French army is divided into 2 parts, the active army which fights on the front line, composed of 19 army corps in 46 divisions and a reserve army composed of 25 reserve divisions and 13 territorial divisions this army is not on the front line it is not even fully mobilized at the time of the Battle of the Frontiers.
The German army had a larger budget and more officers, allowing it to significantly improve the training of its reserve divisions. This enabled it to deploy 28 reserve divisions alongside its 50 active divisions on the front lines. In 1914, the German army, fighting on both fronts, comprised 39 army corps, in 78 infantry divisions. It's worth noting that, according to the Schlieffen Plan, the bulk of the German army was facing the French because the German high command had determined that Russian mobilization would take longer and that France needed to be withdrawn from the war first.
Numerical superiority of the Allies, you're joking? One of the reasons for the defeat at the Battle of the Frontiers was that France underestimated the German forces deployed on the front lines. Unlike the French, the Germans committed their reserves during the fighting.
The overall plan was that the group formed by the BEF and the French 5th Army would pin down the German right flank, while the French 4th and 3rd Armies would attack in the center in the Ardennes, thus encircling the Germans who had entered Belgium. Believing themselves to be in a position of numerical superiority (31 Franco-British infantry divisions on August 20th, against an estimated 24 German divisions), the French general staff prepared to launch an offensive from August 21, from Maubeuge to Longuyon, by deploying their units. But facing them were actually 48 German infantry divisions approaching (not counting the two army corps dealing with Antwerp and Namur).
Just look at his profile. The guy says that France should have held a plebiscite on Alsace-Moselle in 1918, while the Germans didn't in 1871. Even worse, it wasn't until 1913 and the Saverne Incident that Alsace-Moselle was granted the same rights as the other German states.
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@pegobry_en If they were French, France would have allowed a plebiscite after the end of WW1 about which country they would like to belong to. That France just annexed the region, in violation of the 14 points, speaks for itself. Especially shamelessly since USA had just saved France.
You want a source ?
Here's a map of the Western Front on August 1, 1918, during the Second Battle of the Marne (the last German attack of the spring offensives). France had to extend its front beyond the Somme to come to the aid of the British during the spring.
- In blue: the French
- In orange: the British and their dominions
- In purple: the United States.
@OsamaBLaden11@TRBugeaud2@FRpropagandan French Army during the Battle of the Somme
Gains
165 square miles of territory for the French( British= 120sq.miles)
41,605 German prisoners (incl. 800 officers),
71 field guns, 101 heavy guns, 104 mortars & 535 machine guns
Losses
Casualties: 202,567 (66,688 dead)
Finding good allies and isolating youre adversary is part of the art of war.
France did not need to ask other countries to declare war on Germany.
In 1914, it violated Belgian neutrality, which was guaranteed by the United Kingdom. Then it declared unrestricted submarine warfare and asked Mexico to enter the war against the United States.