Battle of Lorraine

Battle of Lorraine
Part of the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front of the First World War
French infantry surprised by the Germans while cooking at Saarburg (20-21 August 1914, illustration by P. Halke)
Date 14–25 August 1914 Location Lorraine 48°48′N 06°43′E / 48.800°N 6.717°E / 48.800; 6.717 Result German victory
Belligerents
Germany	France
Commanders and leaders
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen Rupprecht of Bavaria Josias von Heeringen	Auguste Dubail Noël de Castelnau Ferdinand Foch
Strength
6th Army	Second Army
Casualties and losses
66,500
Lorraine class=notpageimage| Lorraine, in the modern French region of Grand Est. From 1871 to 1919, German Lorraine was part of the German empire.

The Battle of Lorraine (14 August – 7 September 1914) was a battle on the Western Front during the First World War. The armies of France and Germany had completed their mobilisation, the French with Plan XVII, to conduct an offensive through Lorraine and Alsace into Germany and the Germans with Aufmarsch II West, for an offensive in the north through Luxembourg and Belgium into France, supplemented with attacks in the south to prevent the French from transferring troops to the greater threat in the north.