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 …

Mar 14, 2025 · Battle of Verdun, World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; …

Mar 12, 2023 · Verdun was a fortress city on the River Meuse, and a strategically-vital link in the French sector of the Allied line on the Western Front. To the French people, Verdun was also …

French troops manning a captured German Maxim MG 08 machine gun (mounted on a sledge) at Fort Douaumont, Verdun. At 4am on 21 February 1916 the battle began, with a massive …

Feb 19, 2016 · Verdun was an ancient city that had been among the last to fall during France’s humiliating defeat in the 1870-71’s Franco-Prussian War, and it had since been built into one …

Verdun was a Gallic fortress before Roman times. It was there in 843 that three grandsons of Charlemagne divided his empire in the Treaty of Verdun. Conquered by German invaders in …

Mar 14, 2025 · Battle of Verdun - WWI, French, German: The Battle of Louvemont marked the end of the Battle of Verdun. Over 10 months in 1916 at Verdun, there were over 700,000 …

Oct 29, 2009 · This World War I siege stemmed from German General Erich von Falkenhayn’s edict to elicit major bloodshed from the French defense of the fortress complex around Verdun.

Verdun marked the apogee of the fighting during the Great War, and the scale and the violence of the battle have made it one of the war’s most notable events. This one event encompassed all …

Lasting just three days less than ten months, the Battle of Verdun was a ghastly bloodletting between the German Army and the French Army in 1916. Over 300,000 men on both sides …