Fort Vaux
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Fort Vaux, in 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 1881 to 1884 for 1,500,000 francs, it housed a garrison of 150 men. Vaux was the second fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun after Fort Douaumont, which was captured by a small German raiding party in February 1916 in the confusion of the French retreat from the Woëvre plain. Vaux had been modernised before 1914 with reinforced concrete top protection like Fort Douaumont and was not destroyed by German heavy artillery fire, which had included shelling by 16-inch (410 mm) howitzers. The superstructure of the fort was badly damaged but the garrison, the deep interior corridors and stations were intact when the fort was attacked on 2 June by German Stormtroops.
1916
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Battle of Bezonvaux ⓘ
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Red Zone Lands ⓘ
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Battle of Montfaucon ⓘ
882 battle -
Battle of Verdun ⓘ
1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition -
Siege of Verdun ⓘ
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Battle of Mangiennes ⓘ
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Battle of Vauquois ⓘ
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Battle of Éparges ⓘ
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Recapture of Fort Vaux ⓘ
First offensive of Verdun Fall 1916 -
Battle of Caures Woods ⓘ
1916 battle during the battle of Verdun -
Battle of Verdun ⓘ
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War -
Storming of Fort Vaux ⓘ
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Second Battle of Verdun ⓘ
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Meuse–Argonne offensive ⓘ
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Fort de Troyon ⓘ
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Fort Douaumont ⓘ
fort protecting the city of Verdun, France -
Fort Souville ⓘ
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Fort Tavannes ⓘ
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Ouvrage de Froideterre ⓘ
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Fort Belleville ⓘ
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Fort Belrupt ⓘ
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Fort Sartelles ⓘ
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Fort Vaux ⓘ
fort located in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France -
Verdun Memorial ⓘ
museum and memorial to the Battle of Verdun -
tour de l'Islot ⓘ
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Tour des Plaids ⓘ
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1916 Fort Vaux
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Fort de Vaux pic-003 (cropped to vaillant)
Le commandant Raynal
Fort de Vaux - galerie
Vaux fortress, interior view
Martin Frost Am Strassenkreuz in der Vauxschlucht 1916
Gustave Pineau au fort de Vaux, Verdun, juin 1916
Fort de Vaux - Vue intérieure - Damloup ; Vaux-devant-Damloup - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APMH00022982
Photo of Kurt Rackow
Kurt Rackow (restored)
Fort de Vaux - drapeau français| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| event | armed conflict | Battle of Bezonvaux | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | Red Zone Lands | theater of war | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 882 | Battle of Montfaucon | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1792 | Battle of Verdun | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1870 | Siege of Verdun | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1914 | Battle of Mangiennes | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Vauquois | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1915 | Battle of Éparges | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Recapture of Fort Vaux | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Caures Woods | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Battle of Verdun | German Empire, French Third Republic, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1916 | Storming of Fort Vaux | German Empire, Erich von Falkenhayn, Sylvain Eugène Raynal, French Third Republic, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1917 | Second Battle of Verdun | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1918 | Meuse–Argonne offensive | American Expeditionary Forces, Army Group German Crown Prince, Army Group Duke Albrecht, Henri Gouraud, Henri Mathias Berthelot, First United States Army, Second Army, John J. Pershing, Fourth Army, 5th Army, Army Group Gallwitz, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Max von Gallwitz, military campaign, offensive | Wikidata |
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| link | page | listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage page@ | Wikidata | ||
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| link | page | listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Base Mérimée page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Cultural Inventory page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Base Mérimée page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Subterranea Britannica page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Subterranea page@ | issue 23 | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort de Troyon | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Douaumont | military museum, fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Souville | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Tavannes | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Ouvrage de Froideterre | fortress | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | 1877 | Fort Belleville | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1877 | Fort Belrupt | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1881 | Fort Sartelles | fort | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1916 | Fort Vaux | fort | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1967 | Verdun Memorial | military museum | Wikidata |
| site | tower | tour de l'Islot | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | Tour des Plaids | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | Fort de Vaux pic-003 (cropped to vaillant) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Le commandant Raynal | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort de Vaux - galerie | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Vaux fortress, interior view | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Martin Frost Am Strassenkreuz in der Vauxschlucht 1916 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Gustave Pineau au fort de Vaux, Verdun, juin 1916 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort de Vaux - Vue intérieure - Damloup ; Vaux-devant-Damloup - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APMH00022982 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Photo of Kurt Rackow | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Kurt Rackow (restored) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort de Vaux - drapeau français | Commons | ||
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