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Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne.
Battle of Verdun
Monday morning, February 21, 1916. It is a quarter past seven in the morning when the German army opens fire on the forts north and east of Verdun in France.
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Hidden deep in the woods near Verdun, France, lies Camp Marguerre, where the German army tested the use of concrete during the First World War.
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