Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Hondo yeMiganhu yaiva nemabasa mashanu okurwisa, aitungamirirwa uye akarongwa nomukuru wemauto eFrance Joseph Joffre uye mukuru wemauto eGermany Helmuth von Moltke. Rakarwiwa muna August 1914. Uku kurwisa kushanu, Mulhouse, Lorraine, Ardennes, Charleroi
, neMons, dzakatangwa dzinenge panguva imwe chete. Iwo akanga ari mugumisiro weFrench Plan XVII uye zvirongwa zveGermany zvaipesana. Hondo yeMulhouse, musi waAugust 7<unk>10, 1914, yakafungidzirwa naJoffre kuti asimbise kutora kweFrance kweAlsace, asi zvakaguma naJoffre achibata General Louis Bonneau mhosva yekukundikana kwayo uye achimutsiva naGeneral Paul Pau. Hondo yeLorraine, Nyamavhuvhu 14<unk>25, yaive yekupinda kweFrance kusinga tsanangurike kwenzvimbo iyoyo naGeneral Pau neArmy yake yeAlsace. Hondo yeArdennes, yakarwiwa pakati paAugust 21 ne23 mumasango eArdennes, yakakonzerwa nekusangana kwemauto echiFrench neGerman, uye yakaguma nekukundwa kweFrance, ichirasikirwa nemaGerman sosi yesimbi. Hondo yeCharleroi, iyo yakatanga musi waAugust 20 uye yakapera musi waAugust 23, yaiva hondo inokosha kuWestern Front, uye kukunda kweGermany. Kudzokera shure kwaGeneral Charles Lanrezac zvimwe kwakaponesa Hondo yeFrance, asi Joffre akamupomera kukundikana kweChirongwa XVII, kunyange zvazvo kubviswa kwacho kwakanga kwabvumirwa.