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The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun.
Built from 1881 to 1884 for 1,500,000 francs, it housed a garrison of 150 men. Vaux was the second fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun after Fort Douaumont, which was captured by a small German raiding party in February 1916 in the confusion of the French retreat from the Woëvre plain. Vaux had been modernised before 1914 with reinforced ...
Battle of Verdun – The French consolidated a new line from Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre to Bezonvaux in France, pushing the Germans 7.5 kilometers away from Verdun and taking 11,387 prisoners and 115 guns. [71] The Royal Guernsey Light Infantry was established for action on the Western Front, [72] as part of 202nd Brigade and 67th Division. [73]
Pétain commanded the Second Army at the start of the Battle of Verdun in February 1916. During the battle, he was promoted to Commander of Army Group Centre, which contained a total of 52 divisions. Rather than holding down the same infantry divisions on the Verdun battlefield for months, akin to the German system, he rotated them out after ...
Bayonet Trench (French: Tranchée des Baïonettes) is a First World War memorial near Verdun, France. The 1920 concrete structure encloses the graves of French soldiers who died on the site, which was a military trench, in June 1916 during the Battle of Verdun. Twenty-one soldiers were buried by German troops within the trench, a common ...
Battle of Verdun Battle of the Somme Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre OM , GCB ( French: [ʒozɛf ʒɔfʁ] ; 12 January 1852 [ 2 ] – 3 January 1931) [ 3 ] was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916.
De Gaulle's father encouraged historical and philosophical debate between his children, and through his encouragement, de Gaulle learned French history from an early age. Struck by his mother's tales of how she cried as a child when she heard of the French capitulation to the Germans at Sedan in 1870 , he developed a keen interest in military ...
These mention Jesus' mother (without naming her), but do not refer to his father. The Gospel of Mark, believed to be the first gospel to be written and with a date about two decades after Paul, also does not mention Jesus' father. [10] The first appearance of Joseph is in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, often dated from around 80–90 AD.