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The Battle of Mons was the last of four “Battles of the Frontiers”.The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I.It was a subsidiary action of  the Battle of the frontiers. The Battle of Mons was when in which allies clashed with Germany on the French boarder. In The Battle of Mons about 35,00 British soldiers were involved and about 1,600 of them died in battle. Due to the change of tactics from the Germans,the heaviness of the artillery shelling and the sheer number of men in feldgrau, or field grey, began to make the British troops under pressure.

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