. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. .:•?? V • Mil). Verdun Offensive Halted. The immediate effect of the AIHed drive was toslow down and soon put an end to the enemysoperations at Verdun. As the French moved to-ward Peronne, an important railroad center in theSomme or Picardy region, July 3, and the Britishtook La Boiselle nearby, the Germans assaulted theDamloup battery, southeast of Fort Vaux andnortheast of Verdun, but failed to hold it. The German failure at Verdun was officially rec-ognized in Berlin, Aug. 29, when General von Falk-enhayn, the chief of the gener
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. .:•?? V • Mil). Verdun Offensive Halted. The immediate effect of the AIHed drive was toslow down and soon put an end to the enemysoperations at Verdun. As the French moved to-ward Peronne, an important railroad center in theSomme or Picardy region, July 3, and the Britishtook La Boiselle nearby, the Germans assaulted theDamloup battery, southeast of Fort Vaux andnortheast of Verdun, but failed to hold it. The German failure at Verdun was officially rec-ognized in Berlin, Aug. 29, when General von Falk-enhayn, the chief of the general staff, was place was taken \yy Field Marshal Paul von Hin-denburg, who had gained glory by two great vic-tories in East Prussia, in each of which a Russianinvasion was turned into complete defeat with aloss of 100,000 prisoners in each case. This manhenceforth conducted all the German army opera-tions in every part of Europe, crushed Rumania inthe fall of the same year, fought a delaying battlein the west in all of 1917, directed the Austro-Ger-man offensive
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