 Casualties at the Marne were staggering, with Germany losing 168,000 soldiers to death or injury, compared to 95,000 for the French, 13,000 for the British, and 12,000 for us. After this disaster, German General Ludendorff called off a planned German offensive further north, in the Flanders region stretching between France and Belgium, which he had envisioned as Germany's best hope of victory. In the end, the Second Battle of the Marne marked the last large-scale German offensive of World War I.