TheSixth Army (French:6eme Armée) was a field army of theFrench Army duringWorld War I andWorld War II.
The Sixth Army was formed 26 August 1914, composed of troops from various disparate French armies: two active army corps, the (4th and 7th respectively detached from the Third Army and First Army, the 5th and 6th groups of reserve divisions (commanded byGeneral de Lamaze), the 45th and37th Infantry Divisions, a native brigade and a cavalry corps.
AfterAlexander von Kluck rotated hisGerman First Army away from Paris to reinforceKarl von Bülow'sGerman Second Army,Joseph Gallieni ordered the Sixth Army to attack von Kluck's forces. Although the German First Army counterattacked, this allowedJohn French'sBritish Expeditionary Force to occupy a twenty-mile salient between the two armies beginning theFirst Battle of the Marne.[1]
France would end up contributing three corps to the opening attack of theBattle of the Somme (the20th Army Corps, I Colonial and 35th Corps of the Sixth Army).[2]
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