. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . 352 BATTLEFIELD OF VERDUN. MEUSE PLATEAU 353 veritable lowland, and this for no very great distance. Wemay therefore treat the Barrois plateau as a subsidiary cuestalapping up over the western flank of the main Meuse cuesta, orasymmetrical plateau, and proceed at once to examine thelatter belt of the Verdun battlefield. A brief glance at any good map portraying the topographicfeatures of northern France is sufficient to show that the mas-sive limestone formation (Fig. 78), of which the Barrois plateau
. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . 352 BATTLEFIELD OF VERDUN. MEUSE PLATEAU 353 veritable lowland, and this for no very great distance. Wemay therefore treat the Barrois plateau as a subsidiary cuestalapping up over the western flank of the main Meuse cuesta, orasymmetrical plateau, and proceed at once to examine thelatter belt of the Verdun battlefield. A brief glance at any good map portraying the topographicfeatures of northern France is sufficient to show that the mas-sive limestone formation (Fig. 78), of which the Barrois plateau-maker was but a forerunner, has produced one of the mostremarkable asymmetrical plateaus not merely in France but inany country. With notable continuity this upland belt extendsfrom southwest of M6zieres close to the Belgian border, in agreat sweeping arc southeast, south, and southwest, to theborders of the central highlands of France, a distance of somethree hundred miles. In the Verdun battlefield its crest risesmore than 1,300 feet above sea level and in places dominates theeastern lowland of the Woevre by nea
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