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The Germans held positions on the heights of Samogneux and Champneuville, and their operations were threatened by the French artillery in the line west of the river. On March 6, 1916, the Germans began to bombard the French positions from the Meuse to Béthincourt.
Only a desperate rally enabled the French to keep their front intact while their left was withdrawn from Champneuville and Talou hill to Vacherauville and the Poivre hill, and their right from Bezonvaux and the Bois des Caurières to the Douaumont plateau.
Down below, towards the foot of the lower slopes of the Côte du Poivre, overlooking the village of Champneuville and the Côte de Talou, stretched a strip of wooded country, those same evergreens which, towards the north and elsewhere, had given the Germans such tremendous opportunities for completing preparations for their attack upon the salient.
Germans take Champneuville Feb. 27, with 5,000 prisoners. Bloody encounters at village of Eix on Woevre plain, Feb. 27. Germans occupy Moranville and Haudiomont, Feb. 27. Champlon and Manheuilles fall Feb. 28; 1,300 French prisoners. Verdun battered and set on fire by 42-centimeter guns. French evacuate Fort Vaux, after heavy bombardment, March 1.
Their artillery had destroyed the German defences on Mort Homme, and when the infantry advanced on the 20th they carried it, the Avocourt wood, the Bois de Cumières, and the Bois des Corbeaux, in a few hours with little loss. Simultaneously on the right bank of the river they captured Talou Hill, Champneuville, Mormont farm, and part of the Bois des Fosses.
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