Key Wwi Battle Rested On Taxi Drivers; Paris Taxis Used to Transport Troops During 'Miracle' Battle

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If, on a trip to Paris this past summer, you again were astounded by the beauty of the city and the rudeness of the taxicab drivers who transported you around it, consider for a moment that without the latter there might not now be the former.

For this week in 1914, in what was perhaps the decisive battle of World War I, 600 Parisian cabbies, shuttling from Paris to a battlefront near the Marne River, carried 6,000 soldiers to reinforce the French 6th Army, which was in mortal combat with the German First Army.

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Key Wwi Battle Rested On Taxi Drivers; Paris Taxis Used to Transport Troops During 'Miracle' Battle

In fierce fighting the French Sixth was almost overrun, but the 6,000 new recruits arrived just in time, reinfor...

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