Plan XVII (pronounced [plɑ̃ dis.sɛt]) was the name of a "scheme of mobilization and concentration" that was adopted by the French Conseil Supérieur de...

Schlieffen Plan of 1905. French Plan XVII" in The West Point Atlas of American Wars 1900–1953 (volume II, 1959) was a mish-mash of the real Schlieffen Plan map...

delivered two speeches before the École Militaire that set the foundations of Plan XVII, which was formally adopted in May 1913. French strategists took account...

France and Germany had completed their mobilisation, the French with Plan XVII, to conduct an offensive through Lorraine and Alsace into Germany and...

conflict. Michel retired to Meulan, where he died on 8 November 1937. Plan XVII, the plan that France used in 1914 Cole, 1979. Ralston, p. 330. Cole, 1979...

plans (of varying detail) even for very unlikely hypothetical scenarios. Plan XVII and the Schlieffen Plan are examples of World War I military plans...

of Staff General Joseph Joffre with Plan XVII and an offensive adaptation of the German Aufmarsch II deployment plan by Helmuth von Moltke the Younger....

Russians as soon as a breathing-space was gained against the French. Under Plan XVII the French peacetime army was to form five field armies, with a group...

fortifications, which were not complete until the autumn of 1915. Under Plan XVII the French peacetime army was to form five field armies, with groups of...

would create conditions for victory in the centre or in Lorraine. Under Plan XVII, the French peacetime army was to form five field armies of c. 2,000,000...

The General Staff was responsible for drawing up the plan for mobilization, known as Plan XVII. Using the railroad network, the Army would be shifted...

and marked the collision of the German and French war plans, the Schlieffen Plan and Plan XVII, respectively. Battle of Mülhausen The Battle of Mülhausen...

several offensives into Alsace-Lorraine which failed. France's military Plan XVII anticipated that Germany would concentrate most of its forces in eastern...

forces, primarily under the command of Erich von Manstein, carried out the plan in two days, and managed to slip numerous divisions past the Maginot Line...

during this critical manoeuvre [this being the point of the 1913 French Plan XVII]. But it is here, in the second and final phase of the operation, that...

efforts and progress on the Russian Front stalled. The French army's Plan XVII at the outbreak of the war involved swift mobilization followed by an...

20–23 August. The French deployed five armies on the frontier. The French Plan XVII was intended to bring about the capture of Alsace–Lorraine. On 7 August...

consider the British peace plan, and instead to order general mobilisation and activate War Plan R, the Austro-Hungarian war plan for a war against Russia...

defensive General Michel with General Joffre, who developed Plan XVII, the first offensive war plan adopted by the War Council in May 1913 and ready for distribution...

adopted the strategy devised by Ferdinand Foch, the deployment plan known as Plan XVII. He was selected to command despite never having commanded an Army...

which made the British Empire declare war against Germany. France's Plan XVII - a concentrated offensive meant to overwhelm the German army - also failed...

28 July 1911 – 12 December 1916) when he drafted the French plan of campaign (Plan XVII) in 1913. In 1913 he took command of XX Corps at Nancy, and he...

of Alsace to participate in the attacks towards Alsace called for by Plan XVII. The Army of Alsace contained VII Corps (which had taken but failed to...

French invasion of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars in 1806. Plan XVII, the French plan that was put into effect in 1914 at the outbreak of World War...

August 1914. In 1914, the French War strategy was based on the offensive Plan XVII, which aimed to attack in Alsace-Lorraine. Therefore, the right wing of...

one of the first battles of the World War I. On August 8, according to Plan XVII, French troops entered Mulhouse. But the city fell back into German hands...

(January–December 1927). "Theories, Facts, and Figures". Garden Cities & Town Planning. XVII (Incorporating the Housing Reformer): 102–107. hdl:2027/mdp.39015047769248...

His main task was to devise a new plan for mobilising and concentrating the French armies in the event of war, Plan XVII. In 1912, he was confirmed in his...

city as a central point. However, Hippoadamus of Miletus had a different plan. His idea was that the place would be based on the streets delineated in...

The Type XVII U-boats were small coastal submarines that used a high-test peroxide propulsion system, which offered a combination of air-independent propulsion...