Fort Douaumont
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Fort Douaumont was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun, France, since the 1890s. By 1915, the French General Staff had concluded that even the best-protected forts of Verdun could not withstand bombardments from the German 420 mm Gamma guns. These new super-heavy howitzers had easily taken several large Belgian forts out of action in August 1914. Fort Douaumont and other Verdun forts were judged ineffective and had been partly disarmed and left virtually undefended since 1915. On 25 February 1916, Fort Douaumont was entered and occupied without a fight by a small German raiding party comprising only 19 officers and 79 men, entering via an open window by the moat. The easy fall of Fort Douaumont, only three days after the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, shocked the French Army. It set the stage for the rest of a battle which lasted nine months, at enormous human cost. Douaumont was finally recaptured by three infantry divisions of the Second Army, during the First Offensive Battle of Verdun on 24 October 1916. This event brought closure to the battle in 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 ⓘ
1870 in France during the Franco-Prussian War -
Battle of Mangiennes ⓘ
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Battle of Vauquois ⓘ
battle of first World War -
Battle of Éparges ⓘ
1915 battle -
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 ⓘ
1916 battle -
Second Battle of Verdun ⓘ
World War I battle in 1917 -
Meuse–Argonne offensive ⓘ
1918 military campaign by the Allies during World War I -
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'Horloge ⓘ
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tour de l'Islot ⓘ
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Tour des Plaids ⓘ
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Fort de Douaumont - La messe de minuit au fort de Douaumont - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002141
Fort de Douaumont - Fort de Douaumont, trou d'obus de 400 - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002327B
Karte Fort Douaumont
Fort Douaumont Ende 1916 rotated North at top
Fort Douaumont Ende 1916
Fort Douaumont Ende 1916 cropped
Main communication passage, Fort Douaumont
Fort - Photographie aérienne - au nord-ouest de Douaumont, terrain battu par l'artillerie - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002679B
Fort - Photographie aérienne du fort - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002185
Le commandant Lagrange au fort de Douaumont - début 1916| 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 |
| link | page | Base Mérimée page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Cultural Inventory page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Maisons des Illustres page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | monument historique classé page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | monument historique inscrit page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Subterranea page@ | issue 23 | Wikidata | |
| link | page | Subterranea Britannica page@ | 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'Horloge | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | tour de l'Islot | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| site | tower | Tour des Plaids | fortified tower | Wikidata | |
| commons | image | Fort de Douaumont - La messe de minuit au fort de Douaumont - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002141 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort de Douaumont - Fort de Douaumont, trou d'obus de 400 - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002327B | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Karte Fort Douaumont | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort Douaumont Ende 1916 rotated North at top | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort Douaumont Ende 1916 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort Douaumont Ende 1916 cropped | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Main communication passage, Fort Douaumont | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort - Photographie aérienne - au nord-ouest de Douaumont, terrain battu par l'artillerie - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002679B | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Fort - Photographie aérienne du fort - Douaumont - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - APZ0002185 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Le commandant Lagrange au fort de Douaumont - début 1916 | Commons | ||
