The move went unchallenged by the 2nd Army, which neither attacked nor pursued. The orders did not reach the Fifth Army until the morning of 30 August, and the retreat began several hours late. That night, Joffre ordered Lanrezac to resume his retreat and destroy the bridges over the Oise as he fell back. Advances on the right were made against Guise and forced the Germans, including the Guard Corps, to fall back. The attacks against the town by the XVIII corps was a costly failure but X and III corps on the right were rallied by the commander of I Corps, General Louis Franchet d'Esperey. The Germans captured orders from a French officer and General Karl von Bülow, commander of the German 2nd Army had time to prepare. The movement of the Fifth Army took most of 28 August, turning from facing north to facing west against St. With retreat all along the line, the commander-in-chief of the French forces, Joseph Joffre, needed the Fifth Army (General Charles Lanrezac) to hold off the German advance with a counter-attack, despite a 4 mi (6.4 km) separation from the French Fourth Army on the right flank and the continual retreat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the left flank. On the night of 26 August 1914, the Allies withdrew from Le Cateau to St. Quentin (also called the First Battle of Guise ( French: 1ere Bataille de Guise) was fought from 29 to 30 August 1914, during the First World War.
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