Verdun

How To Use Verdun In A Sentence

• At Verdun, scene of the most murderous battle of the war, a massive ossuary was built to commemorate those 300,000 soldiers whose bodies had never been found or identified.
• The Germans showed particular ingenuity in constructing deep dugouts, like the large stollen used to shelter the troops waiting to assault Verdun in early 1916.
• Among the acquisitions of _France_ were the three bishoprics, _Metz_, _Toul_, and _Verdun_, and the landgraviate of _Upper_ and _Lower Outline of Universal History
• Verdun for example was the bloodiest battle in military history, a black hole where the armies of two nations were swallowed up.
• The mention of Verdun or Arras, or any number of towns so bloodily fought over a generation before, sent shivers down German spines and provoked the fear of a similar catastrophe. Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley
• Elysées "to the frenzied cries of the populace saluting its victorious army, and greeting with wild applause" Pétain, who kept Verdun inviolated, "" De Castelnau, who three times in the fray saw a son fall at his side, "" Gouraud, the Fearless, "" Marchand, who rushed on the On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
• It was said that French soldiers at Verdun were given much heart when they heard the distant rumble of the first British artillery salvos at the Somme.
• In February 1916 the French Army made a stand at Verdun.
• He drove the enemy back at Verdun and protected the front while the French army was in disarray.
• Many soldiers fell at Verdun