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Vintage map of the Battle of Nancy 1914. #237446221
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Nancy - Map of the ground over which the battle of August to September 1914, was fought, showing territory regained by French. The battle of the Grande Couronne of Nancy, 25 August-11 September 1914, saw the French defeat a German counterattack from Lorraine. The First World War had started with a French attack into Lorraine, lost to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. The recovery of Alsace and Lorraine was thus a key French war aim and an attack into Lorraine was seen as the first part of a wider attack on Germany.
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