trajectory of the Schlieffen plan, but only up to the point where it was painfully obvious that he would have needed the army of the Schlieffen plan to proceed...
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Battle of the Ardennes (section Schlieffen–Moltke Plan)
two divisions forward at Liège and Namur. Field marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen was Chief of the German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL) from...
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German General Staff had long assumed they faced a war on two fronts; the Schlieffen Plan envisaged using 80% of the army to defeat France, then switching...
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Battle of Mulhouse (section Schlieffen–Moltke Plan)
modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL)...
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from the regiment to serve as an adjutant to the next chief, Alfred von Schlieffen (in office 1891–1906), whom he regarded as a great instructor on how to...
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comprising 320,000 men, crossed into neutral Belgium in keeping to the Schlieffen Plan, with the ultimate goal of attacking France from the north. Liège...
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six weeks and then turn its attention to Russia. As envisioned by the Schlieffen Plan (revised by Helmuth von Moltke), the Germans embarked on a rapid...
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500 years earlier. Germany entered World War I largely following the Schlieffen Plan. According to Prit Buttar, "In combination with his own strong desire...
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Race to the Sea (section Schlieffen–Moltke Plan)
modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL)...
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modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL)...
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option as the most likely Russian course of action. In 1894 Alfred von Schlieffen, then Chief of the German General Staff, war-gamed a scenario that corresponded...
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villa, which was a gift of the city, despite his admittedly having "lost the greatest war in history". "Victory comes from movement" was Schlieffen's...
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German Confederation (of which Prussia was a member). However, the German Schlieffen Plan required that German armed forces advance through Belgium (thus violating...
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help of machine learning managed to read a small part of a book from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum which was heavily damaged in the eruption of...
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trajectory of the Schlieffen plan [sic], but only up to the point where it was painfully obvious that he would have needed the army of the Schlieffen plan [sic]...
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Waldman (2011). Italy & Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Villa I Tatti. ISBN 978-0674063464. Hungary (4th ed.) Authors: Zoltán Halász /...
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fight the Germans in France. Germany planned to apply the Schlieffen plan. The Schlieffen plan was to attack France first since Russia would not be able...
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respectively) and were directly involved in the implementation of the Schlieffen Plan. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, Rupprecht took command...
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armies in the west and one in the east, executed a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, bypassing French defenses along the common border by moving quickly...
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experts, known all over the world, such as Clausewitz, Moltke the Elder, Schlieffen. Certainly, in their time they assessed the political–military situation...
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147–148 Massie pp. 148–149 'The War in the Present', January 1909 by Schlieffen; E.M.Carroll, Germany and the Great Powers, pp. 577–578; Ham, p. 95 Katharine...
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modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL...
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began, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg as part of the Schlieffen Plan, in an attempt to capture Paris quickly by catching the French off...
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Army, the outermost wing of the massive "right hook" intended by the Schlieffen Plan (a combination of the Aufmarsch I West and Aufmarsch II West deployment...
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against the United Kingdom, France and Russia was dubious in any case. The Schlieffen Plan was the product of this mindset, and had left the General Staff confident...
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