- Fort
Douaumont (French: Fort de
Douaumont,
pronounced [fɔʁ də dwomɔ̃]) was the
largest and
highest fort on the ring of 19
large defensive works which had...
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Douaumont (French pronunciation: [dwomɔ̃]) is a
former commune in the
Meuse department in
Grand Est in north-eastern France. On 1
January 2019, it was...
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beginning of the
attack until 21
February but the
Germans captured Fort
Douaumont in the
first three days. The
advance then
slowed for
several days, despite...
- The
Douaumont Ossuary (French:
Ossuaire de
Douaumont) is a
memorial containing the
skeletal remains of
soldiers who died on the
battlefield during the...
- Fleury-devant-
Douaumont (French pronunciation: [flœʁi dəvɑ̃ dwomɔ̃],
literally Fleury before Douaumont) is a
commune in the
Meuse department in
Grand Est...
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situated on the battlefield,
close to the destro****
village of Fleury-devant-
Douaumont in the département of
Meuse in north-eastern France. It was
built during...
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point in pre-war France,
ringed by a
string of
powerful forts,
including Douaumont and Fort Vaux. By 1916, the
salient at
Verdun jutted into the
German lines...
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hands during a 1984 Franco-German
ceremony to
honour the dead at the
Douaumont Ossuary, near Verdun. The
gesture became a
symbol of the reconciliation...
- Beaumont-en-Verdunois
Bezonvaux ****ières-le-Mort-Homme
Douaumont (partially reconstructed) Fleury-devant-
Douaumont,
location of the
Verdun Memorial Haumont-près-Samogneux...
- 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...
