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The German armies had swept through Belgium and reached the Marne in August 1914 when a French counter-blow, in which the BEF took part, forced them back to the Aisne (Map 1). The front consolidated there while the Germans advanced out of Belgium towards Boulogne and Calais. Replaced on the Aisne, the British moved north towards Ypres to block this advance and to outflank it if possible. The front stabilized in November with the Belgians on the coast, a small French army on their right and then the two British corps in front of and to the south of Ypres.
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© 1999 Dominick Graham
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Graham, D. (1999). Learning the Ropes. In: Against Odds. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27147-4_4
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