A young officer of the French army that had won great victories for France on foreign fields of battle. The Directory believed t
hey could control and use him for their purposes. In 1799, he would seize power from The Directory. Eventually, he would wield as much power as a king. A. Maximillian Robespierre
The Schlieffen Plan was an offensive war plan that involved the invasion of France followed by an invasion of Russia. It was first devised in 1905 and named after German Field Marshall Alfred von Schlieffen.
