Fort Douaumont (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun...

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...

The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the...

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...

situated on the battlefield, close to the destroyed village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont in the département of Meuse in north-eastern France. It was built during...

Douaumont-Vaux (French pronunciation: [dwomɔ̃ vo]) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It was established on 1...

Fleury-devant-Douaumont (French pronunciation: [flœʁi dəvɑ̃ dwomɔ̃], literally Fleury before Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est...

Beaumont-en-Verdunois Bezonvaux Cumières-le-Mort-Homme Douaumont (partially reconstructed) Fleury-devant-Douaumont, location of the Verdun Memorial Haumont-près-Samogneux...

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...

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...

as for significant individuals and events related to the battle. The Douaumont Ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the...

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...

Dieppe-sous-Douaumont (French pronunciation: [djɛp su dwomɔ̃], literally Dieppe under Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in...

forts. Sporadic French resistance was encountered. The Germans took Fort Douaumont and then reinforcements halted the German advance by 28 February. The...

New Brunswick, a city in Canada near Moncton, New Brunswick Dieppe-sous-Douaumont, a French commune in Lorraine, France Dieppe Bay, Antigua and Barbuda...

fallen Muslim tirailleurs who died at Verdun (and in the take-back of Douaumont fort) As part of the Latin Quarter, the 5th arrondissement is known for...

population of 76 (2019). On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Douaumont-Vaux. Fort Vaux is partially located within the territory of the commune...

 259–271, 2007. Map of the Western Front in 1918 (in English) Déminage à Douaumont (in French and English) "Red Zone". education.nationalgeographic.org....

Danish military cemetery: Braine Fort of Douaumont French headstones of the executed of Fleury-devant-Douaumont French memorial: Les fantômes French memorial...

right, was intended to transfer the Marshal's remains to the ossuary at Douaumont, near Verdun, as a sort of "rehabilitation" for Philippe Pétain's supporters...

invented by Polack, medical officer; the Verdun Memorial, Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France Wz.15 (Polish version of the Adrian helmet) as part of a soldier's...

from between the 12th and 18th centuries. A more recent example is the Douaumont ossuary in France, which contains the remains of more than 130,000 French...

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Beaumont-en-Verdunois, Bezonvaux, Cumières-le-Mort-Homme, Fleury-devant-Douaumont, Haumont-près-Samogneux and Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre. In the later part...

itself during the First World War, notably during the recapture of Fort Douaumont in October 1916 with the Moroccan colonial infantry regiment (RICM). Recreated...

Courcelette Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French & German Douaumont Ossuary Glade of the Armistice Hartmannswillerkopf L'Âme de la France...

October, he returned to command of 10th company. As a company commander at Douaumont (during the Battle of Verdun) on 2 March 1916, while leading a charge...

combatants who are known to have been killed in the Ypres Salient. The Douaumont ossuary, meanwhile, contains 130,000 unidentifiable sets of French and...

demanded that President Georges Pompidou consent to its re-interment at Douaumont ossuary among the war dead of the Battle of Verdun. Police recovered the...

progress against fortifications that had had their guns removed. Fort Douaumont, the keystone of the system of Verdun forts, had been given up without...