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Updated: May 29, 2025
Thus this on the sidewalk stood some fifty of us, staring at names we had never known until a little while ago, Bethincourt, Malancourt, perhaps, or Montfaucon, or Roisel; French names of small places, among whose crumbled, featureless dust I have walked since, where lived peacefully a few hundred or a few thousand that are now a thousand butchered or broken-hearted.
Now, look still farther, and I will tell you something of the position: there, to the left of you, is Brabant, just round the corner of the hill, though you can't quite see it, and to the left of that again, the river, with the village of Forges just across the water, and Bethincourt and the Mort Homme Hill close to it. Now look to your right.
D. Positions on Feb. 27. E. Bethincourt salient, April 7, before French retired. F. Positions on April 18. The more important actions of the Verdun campaign in their chronological order are indicated as follows: 1. Germans open offensive against Verdun, piercing French lines. French evacuate Haumont, Feb. 22. French recapture Forest of Caures, Feb. 22, but lose it again.
The outermost ran in an arc nine miles from Verdun round in front of Malancourt, Béthincourt, Forges, Brabant, Ornes, Fromezey, and Fresnes; the second was some three miles nearer in, and the third ran by Bras, Douaumont, Vaux, and Eix.
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