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Updated: July 23, 2025
There was talk of a new great field gun perfected by Great Britain a gun that would be more effective than the German 42-centimetres but so far it had come to play no part in the struggle. But of all battles, land or sea, that had been fought in the greatest war of history, the battle of Verdun stood head and shoulders as the most important.
Soon the French guns were speaking as loudly and as often as the great German 42-centimetres themselves. The first work of the new French offensive was to clear the Germans from Dead Man's Hill, Hill No. 320 and Hill No. 304. These battles, among the fiercest of all history, however, were really little more than skirmishes, when the entire movement was taken into consideration.
Abandoning the outlying artificial fortifications, the French had thrown up huge earthworks and from behind these received the German attacks coolly. Against these great earthworks the heavy guns of the attacking forces availed little. The force of even the great 42-centimetres was not great enough to penetrate the loosely built mounds of earth behind which the French reposed.
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