Albert, Battle of

In World War I, an inconclusive battle between French and German forces September 20-30 1914, in Somme département northeast of Amiens, as part of the German ‘race to the sea’.

The French and Germans attempted to outflank each other, leading to a stalemate which was broken by the arrival of German reinforcements. The French were temporarily forced back until they too reinforced and both sides settled into entrenched lines from Albert to Noyon, northeastern Picardy, until the Germans fell back 1917.