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Essay / Battle on the Borders: The First Battle of the Marne German. in France and the rest of Europe. The first reason it was crucial for the Allies to win this battle and thus halt the German advance was that it forced the Germans to abandon their hopes of capturing Paris. At the start of World War I, Germany advanced through Belgium and into northern France. This German offensive plan was known as the Schlieffen Plan. This plan aimed to quickly defeat and conquer the French so that the Germans could concentrate solely on fighting the Russians. The British forces, known as the British Expeditionary Forces, along with the French Fifth and Sixth Armies, were quickly pushed back from the Belgian border and forced to retreat. The Battle of the Borders, which preceded the First Battle of the Marne, was a German offensive which resulted in a large Allied retreat towards Paris. The Allies, not very confident in their ability to keep the Germans at bay and push them away...
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