4th Army (German Empire)
Army · German Empire · from August 2, 1914
Duke Albrecht of Württemberg's army, which won in the Ardennes in 1914 and then held Flanders, opening the gas attack at Ypres in 1915 and taking the Passchendaele offensive in 1917.
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Movements
- July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
- August 1914 – November 11, 1918 German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I
- August 22, 1914 Battle of the Ardennes Defeats the French in the Ardennes Map
- September 7, 1914 First Battle of the Marne Fights at Revigny Map
- September 13 – November 30, 1914 Race to the Sea
- September 15, 1914 – October 10, 1914 Holds the Argonne Map
- October 20, 1914 – April 21, 1915 First Battle of Ypres Moves to Flanders and attacks at Ypres Map
- April 22, 1915 – June 6, 1917 Second Battle of Ypres Opens with chlorine gas Map
- July 13 – August 28, 1915 Vistula–Bug offensive
- June 7, 1917 Battle of Messines (1917) Loses the Messines ridge Map
- July 31, 1917 – April 8, 1918 Battle of Passchendaele Holds the Passchendaele ridges Map
- September 20–26, 1917 Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
- April 25, 1918 Battle of the Lys (1918) Takes Mount Kemmel Map
- November 11, 1918 On the Scheldt at the Armistice (approximate) Map