Fighting began at Verdun, named for the French town that was its focus point, on Feb. In this video we discover the development of the First World War so that you know how this great war was progressing.The 10 photographs seen here all bear the same basic place and date information: Verdun, 1916.īut that information hardly does justice to the battle they depict.
#The battle of verdun series#
It would be in this period of the Great War when everything began to change for the Germans, since several changes in the bureaucratic sector of the army, accompanied by a series of new battles, such as that of the Somme, made the Germans have to withdraw their troops and even divided to cover the different fronts that were beginning to open, thus causing them to begin to have many more casualties, in addition to going little by little wasting away.
Therefore, the Germans had little left to enter the city of Verdun, their plan being enter from the right bank of the Meuse River, a slope that had been heavily attacked throughout this weather. This made the Germans, by defeating part of the Gallic army, more likely to take another of the important enclaves of the Lorraine region, such as the Fort Vaux, which fell on June 7 because they had no water supply, as the Germans had been closing the fence until they were without water. This stage opens with another French defeat in an attempt to retake Fort Douaumon.
Then in this short summary of the battle of Verdun we focus on the central months of the war, which run from May to June 1916. As of that date, progress was worse and worse due to inclement weather, which, added to the French bombing and attacks, made By March 2, 1916, almost three German regiments were destroyed.That day was when the town of Douaumont was taken. We can say that until February 29 the Germans advanced on the territory of Verdun without any problem, quickly taking over the most important fortification in the area, Fort Douaumont. Next, an attack was launched on the trenches using flamethrowers to clean them, in this offensive three bodies of the German army acted. Therefore and to continue with this short summary of the battle of Verdun, on Februthe German attack on the French town began by bombardment (the most intense since the war had started).
This was what the French took advantage of to send two more divisions to what would be the battlefield. It would be a bad part of meteorology which gave France some time to design something for the defense, since a series of Rain accompanied by fogs appeared for February 12, 1916, the date that Germany had set for the attack on area. On the other hand, the general who was in charge of the fortifications of the area was directly controlled by the government of the nation and not by the government of the city, causing orders to take longer to to get. After suffering a series of defeats by the French, the Germans decided to make a great offensive in Gallic territory in 1915, by which time most of Verdun's artillery had been relocated to other fronts, making this region quite easy to conquer.
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