First Battle of Champagne

First Battle of Champagne
Part of the Western Front of the World War I
Waiting for the attack, in the trench.
Date 20 December 1914 – 17 March 1915 Location Champagne-Ardenne, France 49°11′04″N 04°32′39″E / 49.18444°N 4.54417°E / 49.18444; 4.54417 Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
France	German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Joffre Langle de Cary	Erich von Falkenhayn Karl von Einem
Strength
Fourth Army	3rd Army
Casualties and losses
93,432	46,100
Champagne class=notpageimage| Champagne-Ardenne, a former administrative region of France, in the north-east, bordering Belgium

The First Battle of Champagne was a battle of the First World War which happened from 20 December 1914 to 17 March 1915 in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France.^[1] The battle was fought by the French Fourth Army and the German 3rd Army.

1. ↑ Doughty, Robert (2009). Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674034310.