Person1852 – 1931
Joseph Joffre
Commander-in-chief of the French army (1911–1916), hailed as “the victor of the Marne” for halting the German advance in 1914
Where they went
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French and British troops stopped the German army, which had swept through Belgium almost to Paris, on the river Marne. Germany’s plan for a short war collapsed and the Western Front froze into trench warfare.
People who appear alongside
- Ferdinand Foch1851 – 1929
French general who became Allied supreme commander in 1918, halted Germany’s last offensive, led the counter-attack and received the armistice at Compiègne
Themes this person appears in
- World War I and the Russian Revolution1908 – 1923
From the Balkan crises to a war of trenches and total mobilization that toppled four empires; the Russian Revolution it unleashed, which created the first socialist state; and the Versailles settlement of national self-determination and the League of Nations