Fort Douaumont (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun...

Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended...

Fort de Joux (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ də ʒu]) or Château de Joux (French pronunciation: [ʃato də ʒu]) is a castle, later transformed into a fort,...

generally adopted in 1888. Three types of fort were built, stop forts, screening forts and point defence forts; the forts may be further categorized by their...

Fort Souville, briefly called Fort Lemoine, was one of the forts of the Verdun Fortification District, situated in the commune of Fleury-devant-Douaumont...

Fort du Salbert, also known as Fort Lefebvre, was built between 1874 and 1877. It was named after General François Joseph Lefebvre. It forms part of the...

valley floors that are in evidence today. The location was chosen for a fort because it facilitated the surveillance and control of the city of Grenoble...

The Fort du Replaton is a fortification of the Séré de Rivières system in Modane, France. The fort was built to provide artillery cover for the French...

The Fort des Dunes, also known as Fort Leffrinckoucke and sometime Fort de l'Est, is located in the commune of Leffrinckoucke, France, about 6 kilometres...

Fort Dubois is a military construction from the 19th century, located in the town of Hirson in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France. This...