. Review of reviews and world's work. agin, left their trenches, swarmed up thefamous slopes of Port Douauniont, took thefort, took the village of Flcury, the woodsof Caillctte, of Laufee, of Fumin, took theHaudraumont quarries, the farm and workof ihiaumont, took the Daiiiloup battery,and stretched a net around the Fort of Vaux,their attack pausing at the edge of Vauxvillage and about \aux Pond. In a feu-hours there were retaken all the importantplaces, all the component parts in the defen-sive system of the fortified camp of Verdun,save only the Fort of \aux, and that wasevacuated by the (le
. Review of reviews and world's work. agin, left their trenches, swarmed up thefamous slopes of Port Douauniont, took thefort, took the village of Flcury, the woodsof Caillctte, of Laufee, of Fumin, took theHaudraumont quarries, the farm and workof ihiaumont, took the Daiiiloup battery,and stretched a net around the Fort of Vaux,their attack pausing at the edge of Vauxvillage and about \aux Pond. In a feu-hours there were retaken all the importantplaces, all the component parts in the defen-sive system of the fortified camp of Verdun,save only the Fort of \aux, and that wasevacuated by the (lermans a few da>s later. When the French attack had ended andVaux had been evacuated, the French re-mained in possession of every fort and everyprepared line which had been erected beforethe war and which belonged to the oiti Ver-dun defense s\stem. lliev retaken ifJless than six hours the ground which hadoccupied the German army for more than!>cvcn months in daily fighting and cost the 632 THE AMERICAN REVIEIF OF REJIEJrS. Tin; HONORS OF VKRDUiV (The picture shows the cusliion on which tlic Presidentof the Republic pinned llie crosses and nie<l<ils con-ferred on the town of Verdun by France and the Al-lies. At the top is the Cross of the Russian Order ofSt. George; luidcrneath, from left to right, are seenthe Military Cross, the Cross of the Legion of Honour,the French War Cross, the Italian (Jold Medal forMilitary Valour; below, from left to right, the SerbianGold Medal for Bravery, the Belgian Cross of Leo-pold L, and the Obilitch medal of Montenegro) Germans not less than half a million casual-ties. In makinji: the assault the French took6000 prisoners and lost rather less than 5000in killed and wounded. A more brilliant bit of scientific militaryoperation it would be impossible to Germans in Douaumont were surprisedand the French captured many guns and awhole magazine of shells, grenades, and am-munition, together with vast stores of pro-vision
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