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Morhange - Map showing extent of French advance and German counter-stroke in the battle of August 1914. The Battle of Lorraine 14 August Ã¢â¬â 7 September 1914 was a battle on the Western Front during the First World War. The armies of France and Germany had completed their mobilisation, the French with Plan XVII, to conduct an offensive through Lorraine and Alsace into Germany and the Germans with Aufmarsch II West, for an offensive in the north through Luxembourg and Belgium into France, supplemented with attacks in the south to prevent the French from transferring troops to the greater threat in the north.