First Battle of Champagne
Event date
20th December 1914 to 17th March 1915
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Source
wikipedia.org , 20th February 2014
Source Date
2014-02-20 00:00:00
Entity info.
The First Battle of Champagne (French: 1ère Bataille de Champagne) was fought from 20 December 1914 – 17 March 1915 in World War I in the Champagne region of France, between the French Fourth Army and the German Third Army. It was the first offensive by the Allies against the Germans since the end of mobile warfare, after the Race to the Sea during the autumn of 1914 and the defensive battles in Flanders at the Battle of the Yser and the First Battle of Ypres in October and November.
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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 France United Kingdom |
 German Empire |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Nöel de Castelnau Douglas Haig |
Helmuth von Moltke Erich von Falkenhayn Crown Prince Rupprecht |
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| Strength | |||||||
| French Fourth Army ~Unknown strength |
German Third Army ~Unknown strength |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 93,432 3,000 |
46,100 |
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