2 August 1914 First Shots and First Fatalities on the Western Front

Below is a monument located south of Belfort, France, in the Vosges Mountains. It celebrates Jules André Peugeot, corporal of the 44th Regiment of Infantry. On 2 August 1914, some thirty hours before the declaration of war between Germany and France, Peugeot and four soldiers with him gave letters home to the local mail carrier, who took them and went off. There was a house then where now there