1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Douaumont tourelle
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 merged into the new commune Douaumont-Vaux.[2]
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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...
The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Beaumont-en-Verdunois Bezonvaux Cumières-le-Mort-Homme Douaumont (partially reconstructed) Fleury-devant-Douaumont, location of the Verdun Memorial Haumont-près-Samogneux...
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...
addition to significant people and events related to the battle. The Douaumont ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of soldiers who died on the...
259–271, 2007. Map of the Western Front in 1918 (in English) Déminage à Douaumont (in French and English) "Red Zone". education.nationalgeographic.org....
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...
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...
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...
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...
1916, while en route to Balsley, Chapman was again attacked, north of Douaumont by German flying ace Leutnant Kurt Wintgens, a close friend of Höhndorf...
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