French troops move on Fleury. (Wikimedia Commons) By late 1914, Verdun-sur-Meuse - a town on the Meuse river in Northeastern France - was surrounded on three sides by the German army. The lines of the Western Front bulged eastward around the town, and only La Route Sacrée, a medium-sized road, resupplied the French at Verdun.…
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