where was the battle of verdun ww1?
Verdun
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 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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 The Battle of Amiens , also known as the Third Battle of Picardy ( French : 3ème Bataille de Picardie ) , which began on 8 August 1918 , was the opening phase of the Allied offensive later known as the Hundred Days Offensive that ultimately led to the end of the First World War . Allied forces advanced over 11 kilometres ( 7 mi ) on the first day , one of the greatest advances of the war , with Henry Rawlinson 's British Fourth Army playing the decisive role . The battle is also notable for its effects on both sides ' morale and the large number of surrendering German forces . This led Erich Ludendorff to describe the first day of the battle as " the black day of the German Army " . Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare and marked the end of trench warfare on the Western Front ; fighting becoming mobile once again until the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 . 

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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 : 

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 The Battle of Vauchamps ( 14 February 1814 ) was the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition . It resulted in a part of the Grande Armée under Napoleon I defeating a superior Prussian and Russian force of the Army of Silesia under Field @-@ marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher . 
