Battle of the Marne
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Batalla del Marne
- The Battle of the Marne was a turning point in World War I, marking the first major defeat of the German army.
- the Battle of the Marne in France
- won the Battle of the Marne
Examples
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Next to it, I cannot even recall the terror I felt in those harrowing days I spent on the Eastern Front and at the Battle of the Marne.
Fiction book (2001) -
Thing is, they actually lost more territory and more men in the second Battle of the Marne last month.
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I'm gonna give you every little detail of the biggest military operation since Battle of the Marne.
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He concluded by noting that France won the Battle of the Marne in 1914 "with Parisian taxis, because the taxi drivers were French."
Academic text (1998) -
That's the message supposedly sent by General Ferdinand Foch of France to his commanding general, Joseph Joffre, during the crucial First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.
Blog text (21) -
During the Battle of the Marne, Allied forces successfully pushed back the advancing German troops in 1918.
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Historians agree that the outcome of the Battle of the Marne significantly influenced the course of World War I.
Synonyms
A major 1918 battle in northwest France where the Allies stopped a large German attack
Surface Forms
Morphology
battle + of + the + Marne
This is compositionally transparent: 'battle' + 'of' + the place-name 'Marne' clearly denotes a battle that took place at or near the Marne. The 'Battle of [place]' pattern is highly regular across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words can infer it refers to a specific battle even without historical details.
Etymology
Battle of the Marne comes from fighting along the Marne river near Paris, where Allied troops stopped the German advance. That's why the name is remembered as a 'turning point' in World War I.