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The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st Army.

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  • The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st Army.
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  • Battle of Mons
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  • See the Aftermath section
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  • 1 cavalry brigade
  • 1 cavalry division
  • 2 corps
  • 3 cavalry divisions
  • 4 corps
  • total: 160,000 men and 600 guns
  • total: 80,000 men and 300 guns
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