AHC: Make WWI not a bloodbath

We could also add the later large-scale battles of 1813-4, particularly at Leipzig to the bunch. And of course the Taiping Rebellion, which had some rather large battles and also topped WWI in death tolls by some reckonings.

I've heard it said that the Romans at the Battle of Arausio suffered more losses than any single day on the Western Front. That they could recover and win the war speaks volumes about the Roman Republic, and Gaius Marius in particular.

How to make WWI less of a bloodbath: more British aggressiveness at the Marne enables a large portion of the German army (I forget which one, exactly) to be encircled and destroyed. This makes a German defeat far more likely.
 
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