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...
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captured Fort Vaux. The Germans advanced towards the last geographical objectives of the original plan, at Fleury-devant-Douaumont and Fort Souville,...
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(2019). On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Douaumont-Vaux. Fort Vaux is partially located within the territory of the commune (the other...
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Look up Vaux or vaux in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vaux may refer to: Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828), French chemist and pharmacist Bernard...
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the hallways inside the fort The entrance to the fort Elevating mechanism of 155mm gun turret Fort Vaux Zone rouge (First World War) French villages destroyed...
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bird was the last held at Fort Vaux before it was overrun in the Battle of Verdun. Le Vaillant carried a message from the fort's commander Sylvain Reynal...
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Raynal (3 March 1867 – 13 January 1939) was a French military officer. The Fort Vaux was commanded by Raynal who started the war in charge of the 7th Regiment...
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redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, architects of Central Park and Prospect Park, in 1867. Fort Greene Park contains the Prison Ship Martyrs'...
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Attack V.5 Unterstand Foxhole V.6 Die Schlafenden von Fort Vaux – Gas-Tote The Sleepers of Fort Vaux – Gas Victims V.7 Verwundetentransport im Houthulster...
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point in pre-war France, ringed by a string of powerful forts, including Douaumont and Fort Vaux. By 1916, the salient at Verdun jutted into the German...
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