The first trenches are dug on the Aisne
1914 · Event
Thrown back from the Marne, the German armies stop on the ridges above the River Aisne and dig in; the pursuing Allies, unable to shift them, dig too. Nobody plans it, but the Western Front has just been invented — the lines barely move for four years.
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