<P> On the afternoon of 31 May, Beatty and Hipper encountered each other, and in a running battle to the south Hipper drew the British into the path of the High Seas Fleet . Beatty turned and fled towards the Grand Fleet and from 18: 30 until nightfall at about 20: 30 the two huge fleets--totaling 250 ships between them--were heavily engaged . Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss of life . Jellicoe tried to cut the Germans off from their base in the hope of continuing the battle in the morning, but under cover of darkness Scheer crossed the wake of the British fleet and returned to port . </P> <P> The First Battle of the Marne (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a World War I battle fought from September 5 to September 12, 1914 . It was a Franco - British victory against the German army under German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger . </P> <P> The battle of the Marne was a major turning point of World War I. By the end of August 1914, the whole Allied army on the Western Front had been forced into a general retreat back towards Paris . Meanwhile the two main German armies continued through France . It seemed that Paris would be taken as both the French and the British fell back towards the Marne River . </P> <P> The Battle of Gallipoli (sometimes referred to as the first D - Day) took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli from April 1915 to January 1916 during the First World War . A joint British and French operation was mounted in order to eventually capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul . The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides . </P>

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