Race to the Sea
{'<entity_0>': '30 November 1914', '<entity_1>': 'Race to the Sea', '<entity_2>': '19 October 1914', '<entity_3>': '13 September 1914', '<entity_4>': 'North Sea', '<entity_5>': 'Belgium', '<entity_6>': 'France', '<entity_7>': 'Aisne'}
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The <entity_1> (French: Course à la mer; German: Wettlauf zum Meer, Dutch: Race naar de Zee) took place from about 17 September – <entity_2> during the First World War, after the Battle of the Frontiers (7 August – <entity_3>) and the German advance into <entity_6>. The "race" ended on the <entity_4> coast of <entity_5> around <entity_2>, when the last open area from Dixmude to the <entity_4> was occupied by Belgian troops who had retreated after the Siege of Antwerp (28 September – 10 October). After the opposing forces had reached the <entity_4>, both tried to conduct offensives leading to the mutually costly and indecisive Battle of the Yser from 16 October to 2 November and the First Battle of Ypres from <entity_2> to 22 November. The main German force would still advance through <entity_5> and attack southwards into <entity_6>, the French armies would be enveloped on the left and pressed back over the Meuse, <entity_7>, Somme, Oise, Marne and Seine, unable to withdraw into central <entity_6>. On 2 August 1914, the Belgian government refused the passage of German troops through <entity_5> to <entity_6> and on the night of 3/4 August, the Belgian General Staff ordered the Third Division to Liège to obstruct a German advance. While the BEF and the French armies conducted the Great Retreat into <entity_6> (24 August – 28 September), small detachments of the Belgian, French and British armies conducted operations in <entity_5> against German cavalry and Jäger. The encounter battle ended and subsequent operations in the Battle of Armentières took place after the end of the <entity_1> during the 16 Octoberr31 Octoberof Ypres (<entity_2> – 22 November). The Battle of the Yser (18 <entity_2> – <entity_0>) was fought, along a 22 mi (35 km) stretch of the Yser river and Yperlee Canal in <entity_5>.
['military operation']