How To Use Verdun In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Among the acquisitions of _France_ were the three bishoprics, _Metz_, _Toul_, and _Verdun_, and the landgraviate of _Upper_ and _Lower
Outline of Universal History
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Verdun for example was the bloodiest battle in military history, a black hole where the armies of two nations were swallowed up.
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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
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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
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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.
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In February 1916 the French Army made a stand at Verdun.
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He drove the enemy back at Verdun and protected the front while the French army was in disarray.
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Many soldiers fell at Verdun
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In contrast with the pre-1914 view that the French soldier, with his singular élan, performed best in the attack, they took the doggedness of the poilu in defence at Verdun in 1916 as their guide.
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Many soldiers fell at Verdun ; Several deer have fallen to the same gun.
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Yet instead of sensibly contrasting two irreconcilable ends of a half-century, half a world apart, Mr. Spender laments of the poets surviving Vietnam (as opposed to the survivors of Verdun) that only "one or two
is an exception in having ambitions which derive from an idea of poetry based on past examples
which exercise claims on the future.
Cultural Barbarians?
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Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.
Michael Vlahos: Mon General McChrystal
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`You see, during the war I was managing an estaminet in Épernay near to Verdun, sonny.
FAIRYLAND
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Already by early March, Verdun had become a ghost town.
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Having lived in 10 Montreal boroughs or neighbourhoods since I was born, I can honestly say that Verdun is not only the most bilingual area on the island, but also the one in which francophones and anglophones get along the best.
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Having lived in 10 Montreal boroughs or neighbourhoods since I was born, I can honestly say that Verdun is not only the most bilingual area on the island, but also the one in which francophones and anglophones get along the best.
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In February 1916 the French Army made a stand at Verdun.
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In the moment of history, at Verdun and for Verdun , he said, France knew how to unite.
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In all he fought 257 combats at Verdun, most of them against heavy odds, and shot down eleven planes.
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By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape.
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They made me drive out to Verdun, took all my money, my car, and left me out on the street.
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Some time later he wrote to the same friend: ” “Nous avons fait un charmant voyage sur la Saone, de Macon a Verdun avec retour a Chalon ” une flanerie a voile avec toutes les varietes de temps: vents forts et vents faibles, calmes plats (c'est le moins agreable), bourrasques, beau temps, pluie, clair-de-lune, obscurite presque complete, splendeurs du soleil.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Sweden acquired West Pomerania including Stettin and the Oder Estuary, Wismar in Mecklenburg and the bishoprics of Bremen and Verdun.
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These three Manors did not come into the possession of the Audleys until early in the 12 th century when they were held by socage, i.e. military service, from the De Verdun family.
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For more than a century, since Francis Galton first started speculating about the similarities of twins, nature-nurture was a war with a stalemated front and intelligence was its Verdun—the most hotly contested and costly battle.
A Truce in the War Over Smarts and Genes
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But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
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He later acquired the archbishoprics of Metz and Verdun as well.
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And as, once he adopted the nobiliary point of view which for him overshadowed everything else, M. de Charlus was capable of the most childish extravagances, he told me, in the same serious tone as if he were speaking of the Marne or of Verdun, that there were most interesting and curious things which should not be excluded by any historian of this war.
Time Regained
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At the end of the Battle of Verdun, the French emerged victorious, though at a huge cost in human lives and materiel.
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She was a VAD in an army hospital, and I had been wounded at Verdun.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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But Falkenhayn's assault on Verdun disrupted the Allied plans.
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In all he fought 257 combats at Verdun, most of them against heavy odds, and shot down eleven planes.
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They arrived about a fortnight ago from the Verdun front.
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