23 August 1914: Where Everyone Was This Critical Day on the Western Front

A fantastic new website out of France has come to our attention. Cartographie 1914-1918 (trans: Mapping 1914-1918) shows the position of every major unit of all combatants on every day of the war.  A large, high-resolution map similar to the one below (which is the smaller, low-resolution version you see when you first click on a date) is now available for each day through the end of July 1916.

The map we are sharing with you is today's Centennial Map when the Battle of the Frontiers was reaching a crescendo. 

To view the full map for 23 August 1914, Click Here

http://www.carto1418.fr/target/19140823.html

To visit the home page of Cartographie 1914-1918, Click Here

http://www.carto1418.fr/index.php

Tips of the hat to Don Jay and Steve Miller for bringing this site to our attention.