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Plan XVII was the name of the battle plan adopted by the French General Staff in 1913, to be put into effect by the French Army in the event of war between France and Germany. When Germany declared war a year later, France riposted with five initiatives, now collectively known as the
Battle of the Frontiers:
Battle of Mulhouse - (8-10 August 1914)
Battle of Lorraine - (14-25 August 1914)
Battle of the Ardennes - (21-23 August 1914)
Battle of Charleroi - (21- August 1914)
Battle of Mons - (23-4 August 1914)
The battles relied on the principle of
élan ("dash", in the sense of prompt, spirited and vigorous action). The French commander in chief, Joseph Joffre, was one of the main architects of Plan XVII.
Background
Following the defeat of the French armies during the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the French military had to adapt itself to a new balance of power in Europe. The emergence of the German Empire on the other side of the Rhine, combined with the loss of the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, had the combined effect of putting France at a critical disadvantage.
In 1898, the French General Staff adopted
Plan XIV(14). Taking into account the numerical inferiority in which the French Army found itself at the time, plan XIV called for a purely defensive strategy along the entire Franco-German border. Besides the ever increasing disparity in terms of total population—by the turn of the century France had a stagnant population of around forty million, compared to fifty million Germans, and rising — there was also the problem of the reserves. The war of 1870-71 had demonstrated not only the ability of the German General Staff to make full use of the German railroad network to deploy its armies, but also its capability to mobilize and incorporate its pool of reservists into the front-line units in a short amount of time. While the French General Staff began to apply the lessons learned from experience regarding the adequate use of the railways, the question of using the reservists in frontline units was not adequately resolved. As such, plan XIV didn't take into account the reserves.
In 1903, Plan XIV gave way to
Plan XV. While defensive in character, plan XV did consider using the reserve formations, but only in a subordinate role.
The offensive
France military strategy in World War I known as
Plan XVII was initially created by
Ferdinand Foch. The offensive plan used brute force and a mystical belief in the French "élan" or "fighting spirit."
Joseph Joffre adopted this plan upon becoming commander-in-chief in 1911.
After the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the French had lost the provinces of
Alsace-Lorraine to the German empire. This created a spirit of
revanchism in France, and one of the main aims of Plan XVII was to recapture Alsace and Lorraine. In order to do this, four French armies would advance on either side of
Metz and Thionville. This left only one army to defend northern France, but French planners were convinced that Germany would not invade through Belgium, as this would lead to United Kingdom involvement (in the
Treaty of London, 1839, the United Kingdom had guaranteed Belgian
Neutral country).
Unfortunately for the French, the Germans regarded the Treaty of London as a mere "scrap of paper" (and thought the British would do so as well), and their Schlieffen plan called for an attack through Belgium and northern France in order to encircle Paris.
When the war broke out in 1914, the execution of Plan XVII ended in total failure. The German defense of Alsace-Lorraine turned out to be of much better quality than expected, and within a few weeks, the French were back in their starting positions, while the Germans had advanced almost unopposed through Belgium and northern France and were threatening Paris, according to the Schlieffen Plan. Only the fact that the German high command diverted troops to the Eastern Front (World War I) and to a counterattack in Alsace-Lorraine (which was in turn repulsed by the French), allowed the French and their British allies (who had adhered to the Treaty of London and thus declared war on Germany after the German invasion of Belgium) to halt the German advance in the
First Battle of the Marne. With hindsight, though, the failure of Plan XVII may not have been an entirely bad thing - The original Schlieffen Plan called for little defense in Alsace-Lorraine in order to lure French forces away from Paris into Germany, then to be double-enveloped and destroyed. Ironically, the abrupt failure for the French to take Alsace-Lorraine might have eventually earned them their victory in Marne.
External links
- First World War.com A map of the French and German war plans
Plan XVII was the name of the battle plan adopted by the French General Staff in 1913, to be put into effect by the French Army in the event of war between France and Germany. When Germany declared war a year later, France riposted with five initiatives, now collectively known as the
Battle of the Frontiers:
Battle of Mulhouse - (8-10 August 1914)
Battle of Lorraine - (14-25 August 1914)
Battle of the Ardennes - (21-23 August 1914)
Battle of Charleroi - (21- August 1914)
Battle of Mons - (23-4 August 1914)
The battles relied on the principle of
élan ("dash", in the sense of prompt, spirited and vigorous action). The French commander in chief, Joseph Joffre, was one of the main architects of Plan XVII.
Background
Following the defeat of the French armies during the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the French military had to adapt itself to a new balance of power in Europe. The emergence of the German Empire on the other side of the Rhine, combined with the loss of the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, had the combined effect of putting France at a critical disadvantage.
In 1898, the French General Staff adopted
Plan XIV(14). Taking into account the numerical inferiority in which the French Army found itself at the time, plan XIV called for a purely defensive strategy along the entire Franco-German border. Besides the ever increasing disparity in terms of total population—by the turn of the century France had a stagnant population of around forty million, compared to fifty million Germans, and rising — there was also the problem of the reserves. The war of 1870-71 had demonstrated not only the ability of the German General Staff to make full use of the German railroad network to deploy its armies, but also its capability to mobilize and incorporate its pool of reservists into the front-line units in a short amount of time. While the French General Staff began to apply the lessons learned from experience regarding the adequate use of the railways, the question of using the reservists in frontline units was not adequately resolved. As such, plan XIV didn't take into account the reserves.
In 1903, Plan XIV gave way to
Plan XV. While defensive in character, plan XV did consider using the reserve formations, but only in a subordinate role.
The offensive France military strategy in
World War I known as
Plan XVII was initially created by
Ferdinand Foch. The offensive plan used brute force and a mystical belief in the French "élan" or "fighting spirit." Joseph Joffre adopted this plan upon becoming commander-in-chief in 1911.
After the
Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the French had lost the provinces of
Alsace-Lorraine to the German empire. This created a spirit of
revanchism in France, and one of the main aims of Plan XVII was to recapture Alsace and Lorraine. In order to do this, four French armies would advance on either side of Metz and Thionville. This left only one army to defend northern France, but French planners were convinced that Germany would not invade through
Belgium, as this would lead to
United Kingdom involvement (in the Treaty of London, 1839, the United Kingdom had guaranteed Belgian
Neutral country).
Unfortunately for the French, the Germans regarded the Treaty of London as a mere "scrap of paper" (and thought the British would do so as well), and their Schlieffen plan called for an attack through Belgium and northern France in order to encircle Paris.
When the war broke out in 1914, the execution of Plan XVII ended in total failure. The German defense of Alsace-Lorraine turned out to be of much better quality than expected, and within a few weeks, the French were back in their starting positions, while the Germans had advanced almost unopposed through Belgium and northern France and were threatening Paris, according to the
Schlieffen Plan. Only the fact that the German high command diverted troops to the
Eastern Front (World War I) and to a counterattack in Alsace-Lorraine (which was in turn repulsed by the French), allowed the French and their British allies (who had adhered to the Treaty of London and thus declared war on Germany after the German invasion of Belgium) to halt the German advance in the First Battle of the Marne. With hindsight, though, the failure of Plan XVII may not have been an entirely bad thing - The original
Schlieffen Plan called for little defense in Alsace-Lorraine in order to lure French forces away from Paris into Germany, then to be double-enveloped and destroyed. Ironically, the abrupt failure for the French to take Alsace-Lorraine might have eventually earned them their victory in Marne.
External links
- First World War.com A map of the French and German war plans
Plan XVII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plan XVII was the name of the battle plan adopted by the French General Staff in 1913, to be put into effect by the French Army in the event of war between France and Germany.
First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Planning of the War
Much is made of the German Schlieffen Plan and, to a lesser extent, the French Plan XVII. But what of Austria-Hungary's Plan B and Russia's Plan 19?
Trenches on the Web - Timeline: 1905-1914 - War Plans
French Plan XVII: The French, never able to dispel the humiliating defeat of 1871, put first and foremost in their plan the retaking of the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine.
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Table of Contents. 1 External links; The offensive French military strategy in World War I known as Plan XVII was initially created by Ferdinand Foch.
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