Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Schlieffen Plan was, perhaps, a good idea when it was drafted. However, by the time it was brought into action, a decade had passed, ...
On January 4, 1913, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, the architect of Germany’s plan of attack on France, died in bed of natural causes at the age of 79—thus missing, by just 19 months ...
Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to conquer France entailed a wheeling movement of the northern wing of its armies through central Belgium to enter France near Lille. It would turn west near the ...