The Western Front · 1914–1918

4 August 1914

Day 1 of 1,561Front at its nearest to Paris: —

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Front line
Held by the German armies
Earlier line
Battle in progress
Past battle (point at it)

Front lines are simplified from standard histories and are good to within a few kilometres. Before October 1914 the line marks the rough limit of the German advance, not a continuous trench front. Borders are those of August 1914, with Alsace and northern Lorraine inside the German Empire.