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| | The FReeper Foxhole Studies the Maginot Line - December 26th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The longest battle of the Great War, The Battle of Verdun raged for 10 months, from February to December, 1916, and cost nearly a million casualties on both sides (but no one will ever know for sure the exact total). |
 | | The old fortress city of Verdun was ringed by strongholds and forts, the largest and most important of these being Fort Douaumont called by one writer "the most shelled spot on earth." The Germans captured Fort Douaumont in February, 1916; the french finally retook it in October. |
 | | From 1924 to 1941 Colorado operated with the Battle Fleet in the Pacific, participating in fleet exercises and various ceremonies, and returning to the east coast from time to time for fleet problems in the Caribbean. |
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