where was battle of verdun located?
Verdun
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 Three events allowed the Angevins ' successful termination of the conflict : 

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 Three events allowed the Angevins ' successful termination of the conflict : 

contradiction
 The Battle of Verdun began on 21 February 1916 after a nine @-@ day delay due to snow and blizzards . After a massive eight @-@ hour artillery bombardment , the Germans did not expect much resistance as they slowly advanced on Verdun and its forts . However , heavy French resistance was encountered . The French lost control of Fort Douaumont . Nonetheless , French reinforcements halted the German advance by 28 February . 

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 Hannibal 's double envelopment at Cannae is often viewed as one of the greatest battlefield maneuvers in history , and is cited as the first successful use of the pincer movement within the Western world to be recorded in detail . 

entailment
 Although the French and the Austrians claimed victory at the time , military historians generally agree that the Austrians achieved a strategic advantage . However , the French withdrew from the battlefield in good order and several days later crossed the Rhine River at Hüningen . A confusion of politics and diplomacy in Vienna wasted any strategic advantage that Charles might have obtained and locked the Habsburg force into two sieges on the Rhine , when the troops were badly needed in northern Italy . The battle is commemorated on a monument in Vienna and on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris . 
