Between von Kluck"s First Army and von Bulow"s Second, a gap had materialized. Von Kluck was a hard-charging army commander who thirsted for glory. Bulow, on the other hand, was far more conservative and definitely more cautious. When the newly organized French army under Maunoury bumped into von Kluck"s Sixth and began the fight, at first von Kluck thought he saw an opportunity to gather about him those martial glories he so yearned for. But Maunoury and his men turned out to be far more than von Kluck had bargained for. In a matter of hours on the sixth and seventh of September, von Kluck realized he had to readjust his flanks in order to protect his army. But to readjust meant to take a tactical side-step back to the north and east of Paris, a move just enough in distance to separate hi
