The fort Douaumont was one of the many Forts that circled the city of Verdun since the 1890s and had significant weaponry and artillery positions. However the fort fell without a fight on the 26th of February 1916 the Germans managed to take the fort with a small German raiding force composing of 19 German Officers and 79 men. This detrimental blow to the French army caused hysteria and Crippled moral for local french civilians and panic even broke out in the city of Verdun and across France as their impenetrable city had been taken with ease. One of the major factors that resulted in the loss of the Huge fort was simply the poor placement of French Reserve troops mainly where elderly mostly aged around 40-50s and with such a small force of around 56 troops and a hand full of machine gunners.

This proved to be an important placement of German forces which where able to push even closer to the city of Verdun and ultimately became the German victory that General Erich Von Falkenhayn had planned. He was praised for a quick successful blow to France’s Most heavily Defended Military position which would be the very beginning of a horrific battle for a city with such a Great loss of life.

look its my grandpa

lol

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when was that

nvm i think it might be from 1990s

Soviet-Afghan war

thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK8mbA083hE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOsW3cj53FI

big roast
the mouse fell in the trap
what a dumbass, joe
used the word smart

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joe biden trying to escape "lets have this debate somewhere else" what a loser

@0riginal lol you don't need to post it in multiple channels.

oh

no one was in the other one lmao

it was under rated

lmao

No one is in any right now because it's early 😂

The Battle of Verdun was not only one of the Bloodiest Battles of the First World War, but also one of the most Bloodiest battles of the 20th century.

The Battle of Verdun lasted 11 months from the 21st of February till the 18th of December 1916. It was also one of the longest campaigns of the Great War and had one of the heaviest casualties of the war including Civilian Loss of life.

The total number of casualties during the Horrific ten months ( 9 months , 3 weeks and 6 days ) of the Battle of Verdun was 337,000 including 143,000 German and 162,440 French. Although some articles state the number of casualties is around 500,000 - 800,000 in total with numbers of 714,231 in total and France having around 337,231 and the Germans around 337,000 , around 70,000 a month. The number of body’s lost during the battle of Verdun is not enough to comprehend the amount of not only total chaos but also destruction which took place at Verdun and the surround areas mainly the northern Hills of Verdun-Sur-Meuse.

The first column of Soviet roops return to the Soviet Union on May 18 1988

Scouts are leaving for the mountains of Jalalabad

Sappers after demining a mountain road in Jalalabad

A column of armoured personnel carriers with soldiers riding from Herat to Kushka as they leave Afghanistan in 1988

Mujahideen with a captured recoilless rifle

@Clemens continue, good sir.

Soviet Afghan war re-anactment

Afghan resistance fighters returning to a village destroyed by Soviet forces in 1986

Soviet heavy armor at a small encampment in snowy foothills near Kabul on January 7 1980, a few weeks after elements of the Soviet armed forces entering Afghan territory

Facebook recently censored one of my history memes for '"violating our Community Standards on dangerous individuals..." I wondered what they had against Churchill and asked for a review and they admitted their mistake and allow me to keep it up. No, they didn't flag because of Churchill but the other guy.

The Three Servicemen Statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.

The statue by Frederick Hart was placed near the Wall in late 1984.

Photo Taken: April 2006

Located under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, this brass pavement plaque commemorates the fighters of the first Indochina war.

Photo taken: May 2011

if you had to pick a democrat who would it be?

like any democrat

like president

id say lbj or clinton or jfk

jfk and lbj are the same i guess

clinton had a very good econimy