It never fired a shell during the battle as its guns faced east, and the Germans never went around that way.īelow Vaux and Douaumont there is another small 'fort' which is totally destroyed although visible and dates from the 1870s. In fact, one of the Verdun forts is open to the public in a pristine condition. but there were also a multitude of smaller forts that you rarely hear about. There were the big forts - Douaumont, Vaux, etc. Complete answer: The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February-15.
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Q8 & Q9: the origin and the course of the battle of the Somme are not exclusively British The motive was to destroy the French army through the full deployment of British forces. Q5: I believe in 1914 there were 19 forts around Verdun Q4: The answer is not as simple, Falkenhayn justification afterwards doesn't explain it all. Q2: Was France defeat by Germany in WW1 ? Q1: The answer is not so obvious, you have also to consider the long and painful "relationship" between Germany (and the Landers) and France in the previous centuries. In December 1915, General Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff of the German Army, decided to attack Verdun. As a result, Verdun has become symbolic, and the Somme has fallen into obscurity. I am sure that some experts on the battle of Verdun would know better than me but I don't really agree with some of the simplistic answers: During the First World War Verdun was a fortified French garrison town on the River Meuse 200km east of Paris. Fought between the German and French armies from February to December 1916, this brutal battle of attrition claimed one million casualties with 300,000 killed. But the battle was a failure that coincided with the French’s victory over the Germans at Verdun.
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