At the Battle of the Marne, a French soldier was killed by a bomb in a pile of corpses. The bodies of the French soldiers lay in the mud, and next to them was a canteen that had become useless.

A bomb killed a French soldier during the Battle of the Marne, where British and French troops fought the Germans in September 1914. The French soldier's body lay in the mud with a useless water bottle next to it. On the Western Front of World War I, the Battle of the Marne left British and French troops and the Germans with a mountain of corpses. During the Battle of the Marne, bayonets and machine guns killed thousands of soldiers in the trenches, resulting in deaths. 

 　The unstoppable German advance caused panic in Paris, and on September 2 the French government fled to Bordeaux. The Francs moved their troops from the right to the left flank. British commanders retreated to the Channel to return home to heal the wounds of the British troops.

　On the other side of the front, German commander Moltke noticed from the small number of prisoners taken that the French had fled Operation Pincer. Moltke, a 67-year-old old German general, had difficulty keeping track of the battle situation because he was not on the front lines and gave orders from his commander's reports. He ordered the Germans to advance in a southeasterly direction and made a frontal attack toward Paris, although the encircling right flank was longer and the attack was weaker. The French forces decided to counterattack, with the goal of the German invasion force being Paris, and the two armies fought on the banks of the Marne.

　From September 5 to September 10, the French Fifth and Ninth Armies and the British Army halted the German advance. About 1,800 French cavalrymen crossed the Forest of Betz and intercepted the German First Army from behind. The French Third Army defended Verdun, but thousands of lives were lost.

  On the night of September 9, the Germans were suddenly ordered to retreat. Moltke received disastrous misinformation that some French troops had counterattacked. The French army watched the German retreat in amazement and frenzy. The Battle of the Marne saved the capital, Paris, and within a month, half a million French and British troops were killed, wounded, or captured. The Germans lost 300,000 men. The mobile defensive warfare was over, and it became a static defensive war in the dreaded trenches. Both armies sought to race to the sea to encircle the other's northern flank, culminating in the First Battle of Ypres. It led to a bloody four-year stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front in World War I.