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Geographically, the Vosges Mountains are wholly in France, far above the Col de Saverne separating them from the Palatinate Forest in Germany.The latter area logically continues the same Vosges geologic structure but traditionally receives this different name for historical and political reasons.
202nd Mountain Battalion. 198th Fusilier Battalion: Strength; 141st Regiment 275 soldiers 442nd Regiment 2,943 soldiers: unknown: Casualties and losses; 141st Regiment 64 killed/wounded/missing and captured. 442nd Regiment 800 casualties: unknown
The Northern Vosges Massif consists of a monoclinal tilted to the northeast and is mainly composed of Buntsandstein sandstone (colorful sandstone dating from 245 to 230 million years ago). [2] This sandstone is visible on the high points and takes the form of rugged rocks and stacks (a characteristic utilized in the construction of numerous ...
The mountain enters recorded history during the Roman times; a fortress was supposedly destroyed by the Vandals in 407. [2] In the second half of the 9th century, when Vikings attacked the Low Countries , which had been recently converted to Christianity and were governed from Utrecht , the Utrecht bishops went into exile and stayed for a while ...
Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France on a de facto basis in 1940. It operated from 21 May 1941 to September 1944, and was the only concentration camp established by the Germans in the ...
The Battle of Vosges also referred to as the Battle of Vesontio was fought on September 14, [3] 58 BC between the Germanic tribe of the Suebi, under the leadership of Ariovistus, and six Roman legions under the command of Gaius Julius Caesar. This encounter is the third major battle of the Gallic Wars.
Vosges (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a department in the Grand Est region, Northeastern France. It covers part of the Vosges mountain range, after which it is named. Vosges consists of three arrondissements , 17 cantons and 507 communes , [ 3 ] including Domrémy-la-Pucelle , where Joan of Arc was born. [ 4 ]
Site of the Battle of Trippstadt. The Battle of Trippstadt was a relatively minor French military action in 1794 during the War of the First Coalition.The clash between the French Republican forces and the armies of Prussia and Habsburg Austria was fought over several days (13 to 17 July) in the lower Vosges Mountains in the German states west of the Rhine River.