Battle of Mulhouse

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Battle of Mulhouse (Mülhausen)
Part of the Battle of the Frontiers (World War I)
Date August 7-10, 1914 Location Around Mulhouse(Mülhausen) in Alsace Result German victory
Belligerents
France	German Empire
Commanders
Louis Bonneau, Joseph Joffre	Josias von Heeringen
Strength
French First Army	German Seventh Army

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The Battle of Mulhouse (or Mülhausen), which began on August 9, 1914, was the opening attack of World War I by the French army against Germany. The battle was part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace, which the French had ceded to the German Empire after their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. On the morning of August 7, the French army quickly took the French-German border town of Altkirch and moved to the Rhine the following day, seizing the town of Mulhouse. The quick success of the offensive resulted in large victory celebrations in Paris, but on August 9 the German army launched a counter-attack. Unable to mount a concentrated defence, the French were forced to withdraw from Mulhouse.