In August 1914 Australia went to war. By the end of 1914, the German Schlieffen Plan had failed and for the next four years, aside from two failed offensives, the German army never reached further than the Marne River before retreating to a 764-kilometre-long trench line in the north of France where for the best part of the war it remained.
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