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© Stéphane Compoint
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10 major battlefields of the Great War in France (in red, the stabilized front from end 1914 to summer 1918) :
1: Battle of Artois , photos 1-25 .
2: Battle of the Somme , photos 26-50 .
3: Compiègne (Armistice 1918) and Crépy (canon shot to Paris in March 1918), photos 51-60 .
4 Chemin des Dames, photos 61-85 .
5: Battle of the Marne, photos 86-100 .
6: Battle of Champagne, photos 101-120 .
7 Fights in Argonne, photos 121-145 .
8 : Battle of Verdun, photos 146-205 .
9: Eparges and salient of St. Mihiel, photos 206-235 .
10: Battle of Hartmannswillenkopf (Hill of Vieil Armand ) , photos 236-250 .
On the occasion of the commemoration of the beginning of the Great War, photo report on major memorials (French, US, British, Canadian and German monuments and cemeteries, ossuaries) as well as on the websites of major battlefields where you can still almost hundred years later, see the scars of battles (battlefields, trenches, craters and minefields, destroyed villages, ancient forts, mines and saps, etc.). Images at mid-height make possible to locate these sites, considered strategic at the time, in their environment and to understand why these locations were selected at the time by the staffs of the two camps. This is also an opportunity to look at the work of nature, one hundred years on end, to gradually take possession.
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