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    Verdun (/vɜːrˈdʌn/, also UK: /ˈvɛərdʌn/, US: /vɛərˈdʌn/, French: [vɛʁdœ̃] ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department...
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    hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse. The German 5th Army attacked the defences of the Fortified Region of Verdun (RFV, Région Fortifiée de Verdun) and those of...
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    department and it hosted an important battle/offensive in 1916 in and around Verdun. Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution...
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    Netherlands and towns: Haute-Marne Vosges: Neufchâteau Meuse: Commercy, Saint-Mihiel, Verdun, Stenay Ardennes: Sedan, Charleville-Mézières, Givet Namur:...
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    The Verdun Memorial is a war memorial to commemorate the Battle of Verdun, fought in 1916 as part of the First World War. It is situated on the battlefield...
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    Voie Sacrée (category Meuse (department))
    connects Bar-le-Duc to Verdun (Meuse), France. It was given its name because of the vital role it played during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. After...
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    List of French villages destroyed in World War I (category Geography of Meuse (department))
    mostly in the French département of Meuse. During the First World War, specifically at the time of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, many villages in northern...
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    The Meuse–Argonne offensive (also known as the Meuse River–Argonne Forest offensive, the Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign)...
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    Laura Leroux-Revault (category People from Meuse (department))
    Dun-sur-Meuse, Archives départementales de la Meuse (avec mention marginale de mariage). Gohel, Louis-Michel, et. al. Louis-Hector Leroux (Verdun 1829-Angers...
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    Fleury-devant-Douaumont (category Battle of Verdun)
    before Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. During the Battle of Verdun in 1916 it was captured and recaptured...
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    souterraine – lieu du choix – Verdun-Meuse.fr". verdun-meuse.fr. Retrieved 18 November 2022. Frédéric Plancard (18 July 2016). "Meuse : « La vie et rien d'autre »...
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    Bar-le-Duc - Sud Meuse Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Verdun Communauté de communes de l'Aire à l'Argonne Communauté de communes Argonne-Meuse Communauté...
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  • The French town of Verdun was the site of the Battle of Verdun during the First World War, one of the costliest battles in military history. Since then...
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    The arrondissement of Verdun is an arrondissement of France in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region. It has 254 communes. Its population is 85...
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  • Verdun is a city in the Meuse département of France. It also refers to the Battle of Verdun, fought near the above. Verdun may also refer to: J Robert...
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  • The Meuse-Line is the chain of French forts and other military installations closing the passages of the Meuse between Verdun and Toul. These lines formed...
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    Félix Chadenet (category Prefects of Meuse (department))
    bâtonnier of the Verdun bar, and a member of the Meuse General Council. After the February Revolution of 1848 Chadenet was elected to represent Meuse in the Constituent...
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    Fort Vaux (category Battle of Verdun)
    Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended to protect the city of Verdun. Built from...
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  • Reddition is the precise location. Valmy liberated on 30 August 1944. Verdun, Meuse, became in October 1944, one of the two largest American supply depots...
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    Subprefecture building in Verdun, Meuse...
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    Georges Villa (category People from Meuse (department))
    et Archéologique du pays de Bourmont (S.H.A.B.), 135 pages, June 2021 Verdun-Meuse.fr: Georges Villa, peintre et caricaturiste RKD.nl - Georges Villa Bénézit...
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    Bezonvaux (category Battle of Verdun)
    [bəzɔ̃vo]) is a commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region in northeastern France. Since the end of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, it has been unoccupied...
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    Abbey of St Paul, Verdun (French: L'abbaye Saint-Paul de Verdun), is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Verdun, department of Meuse, Grand Est region...
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    la Meuse, d'un reseau de chemins de fer d'iteret local, dit réseau de la Woëvre, compose des deux lignes de Verdun a Montmedy et de Commercy a Verdun."...
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  • originated in the village of Charny-sur-Meuse in northeastern France. The village is located near the city of Verdun, which was the site of major battles...
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  • The siege of Verdun was a battle fought in France during the Franco-Prussian War from 13 October until 8 November 1870. The siege was launched by the Legion...
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  • Verdun, in the Meuse department, is a small city on the river Meuse, which was heavily fortified before WWI. A military airfield was created in 1912 out...
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  • "Reveille", the bugle call sounded at sunrise "The Rouse" http://www.verdun-meuse.fr/images/files/ArticleJournalCombattants030410.pdf. Archived 2016-03-03...
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    Verdun (c. 1130 – c. 1205) was a renowned metalworker, goldsmith and enamellist active around the years 1180–1205. He was born in the city of Verdun,...
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  • The canton of Verdun-1 is an administrative division of the Meuse department, northeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganization...
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