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Battle of verdun
-Lasted from Febreary 21 1916 to december 19 1916
-Casualties were 700,000 people dead, wounded, and missing.
-battle feild not even a square of ten kilometers.
-Britain was the germans biggest enemy/competion, so they thought if they brought down Britains bigges ally The french That Britain would be defeated, and that would leed to the victory of the war.
-The battle of verdun was supposed to be on the night of feb 11 but was postponed becase of bad weather, this saved the french from defeat it gave them time to get defensive improvements done at the last minute.
-The battle of the somme caused the germans to get some troops out of verdun and into the battle of the some
The French Were Victories in The Battle of Verdun.
http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/battleverdun/kortverdun/index.htm
-It was also why the British started the battle of the Some that way it would take some preasure of the french
-Bleed france white-Von Falkenhayn-he believed that these forts had sentiminetel value to the french and that the french would fight to the last man to defent it, and he assumed that french were an easy opponent.
Cusualites-377,231. Of this number 162,308 are dead or missing of the French
337,000 of which 100,000 dead, wounded or missing-Germans
First attack was on feb 21 with the heaveast bombing ever seeen in a war lasted 9 hours
Battle of the Somme.
This was faught because the french was taking too many losses at the battle of verdun so the help them out the British started the battle of the Sommehttp://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/somme.htm
battle of liege, 1914
battle of Ypres, 1917
Battle of the somme, 1916
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