battle, First World War

Battle of Multien

Battle of Multien was a battle fought on 5 September 1914 at Seine-et-Marne, in what is now France. It was part of the Western Front, which ran from 1914 to 1918.

See it on the globe

Schéma des combats sur "l'Ourcq", en réalité en Goële et Multien. Ouvrage : Henriot ; carte : J. Mayor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	5 September 1914
Place	Seine-et-Marne, France 49.038N, 2.878E
Part of	Western Front (1914 to 1918)
Kind	Battle, First World War

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Gué-à-Tresmes 1814, 7.9 km
Siege of Meaux 1421, 8.7 km
Battle of Mello 1358, 8.7 km
Battle of Claye 1814, 16 km
Battle of Montépilloy 1429, 18 km

In the same war

Before: Battle of the Two Morins 5 September 1914
After: Battle of the Frontiers 6 September 1914
All 111 engagements of Western Front

Elsewhere in 1914

Battle of Tannenberg Poland
Battle of the Falkland Islands Argentina
Battle of Sarikamish Turkey
Battle of Galicia Ukraine
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes Russia

Battle of Multien is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 1,142 in present-day France.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2890469, released under CC0. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.