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	La grande guerre avec les chemins de mémoire, à la découverte des hauts lieux de mémoire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bezonvaux stood at the foot of the hillside along the Meuse.
		Bezonvaux stood on the floor of a valley surrounded by wooded hillsides and at the source of a stream called the Bezonvaux, a sub-tributary of the Orne.
		Bezonvaux depended on the lord of Saulcy for a long time before coming into the possession of the lord of Etain.
	www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr /page/affichelieu.php?idLang=en&idLieu=2871 (1589 words)

	hidden europe
		Of the almost five hundred communes in France's Meuse département, Bezonvaux is one of the most intriguing.
		For Bezonvaux is one of a half dozen villages in the forests northeast of the town of Verdun (on the River Meuse) that were pummelled into oblivion in 1916.
		Bezonvaux was destroyed, utterly and completely, and yet happily its name lives on in an ingenuous piece of French civic bureaucracy - perpetuating an abandoned village by letting it retain the status of a commune.
	www.hiddeneurope.co.uk /article_print.php?articles_id=235 (595 words)

	Walking Verdun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leaving Bezonvaux, we returned in the direction of Douaumont, this time following a different route, and roughly in the line of the German advance in February 1916.
		From Bezonvaux the ground rises up to a high point, and following the ride, and using our trench maps, we eventually came out to where the main defensive position was in this area - the Ouvrage de Bezonvaux.
		Although this area is now forest, in 1916 the Ouvrage de Bezonvaux had a clear field of fire and an imposing view across this part of the battlefield.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /walking_verdun.htm (1231 words)

	A.F. Pollard - A Short History Of The Great War - Chapter XII
		The attack extended from Vacherauville on the Meuse to Bezonvaux on the east, and all along the line the French won their objectives.
		Besides Vacherauville they retook Poivre hill, Haudromont wood, and Louvemont on the left, captured Chambrettes farm and Caurières wood in the centre, and seized Hardaumont wood and Bezonvaux on their right.
		Towards the north-east the Germans had almost been thrust back to the line from which they started in February, though to the north they still retained some ground, and the French counter-offensive did not extend to the west of the Meuse.
	www.ibiblio.org /HTMLTexts/Albert_Frederick_Pollard/A_Short_History_Of_The_Great_War/chapter12.html (5520 words)

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		Several of the set goals, in particular Vacherauville and the two front lines in front of Louvemont, are occupied in some minutes in only one approach.
		The forests and ravines in front of Douaumont are more difficult to conquer, the Vauche forest with the bayonet are stormed and taken, while the Chambrettes-Ferme and Bezonvaux can be taken only in the next days.
		Success is large: over 11.000 prisoners, among them 300 officers, 115 cannons, several hundred machine guns, important ammunition and quantities remain in the hands of the Frenchmen.
	www.verdun14-18.de /pages/en/counterblasts.htm (888 words)

	Bezonvaux
		Bezonvaux est un village bâti au fond d'une vallée environnée de côtes couronnées de bois, et à la naissance du ruisseau dit de "Bezonvaux", sous-affluent de l'Orne.
		L'église de Bezonvaux (avant 1914) et la chapelle construite sur son emplacement en 1927.
		Le village de Bezonvaux possédait un château (dont il ne reste plus rien aujourd'hui), le baron Coussey et des dames de Juvigny en étaient les seigneurs.
	members.aol.com /cfmulti/bezonveaux/bezonvea.htm (124 words)

	A.F. Pollard - A Short History Of The Great War - Chapter XI
		Ornes on the east and Samogneux on the west had to be abandoned, and on the 24th the Germans were threatening the centre of the last of the French lines of defence at Louvemont and Hill 347.
		Only a desperate rally enabled the French to keep their front intact while their left was withdrawn from Champneuville and Talou hill to Vacherauville and the Poivre hill, and their right from Bezonvaux and the Bois des Caurières to the Douaumont plateau.
		On the 25th the Germans launched what they thought was their final attack in the battle for Verdun, and before nightfall the news was telegraphed to Berlin that Fort Douaumont, the key of the last line of defence, had fallen.
	www.ibiblio.org /HTMLTexts/Albert_Frederick_Pollard/A_Short_History_Of_The_Great_War/chapter11.html (5812 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - German Account of the End of the Battle of Verdun, October-December 1916
		The transportation of the heavy, artillery was not completed therefore until December 11ith, so that the preparation for the new attack could not begin before that day.
		The goal was the line Bezonvaux Forest from Courieres Farmhouse over Chambrettes, Louvemont, Vacherauville.
		Consequently the attack had to be made in the form of a wide diversion to the left.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/verdun_frobenius.htm (680 words)

	WWI Battle Of Verdun Chapter V French Liberation Of Verdun
		The General replied, "You must forgive me, sir, but I was not expecting you to turn up in such large numbers".
		By the 18th of December 1916, the French line had progressed to a position in front of Talou Hill, north of Poivre Hill, Louvemont and Chambrettes, then south across the Bois d'Hardaumont and La Vaucheup to the outskirts of Bezonvaux.
		General Mangin congratulated his troops on their recent victory and also on having been "Good Ambassadors of the Republic" in view of the recent German overture for peace.
	www.vahs.org /wwi/chap05.htm (1323 words)

	Avalanche Press
		They get 1 VP if they inflict more unrecovered step losses on the French than they take, 3 VPs if they inflict 150% of the step losses the French do, and 5 VPs if they inflict twice the step losses the French do.
		The Germans took the towns of Brabant, Haumont, Beaumont, Ornes, Maucort, Samoneaux, Champ, Vacherauville, Louvemont and Douaumont (but NOT Bezonvaux!).
		The second-trench left-flank holdouts that inflicted massive damage on 7th Reserve Division all get posthumous Croix de Guerre, and that remnant that saved the French right flank at Bezonvaux gets decorated while in hospital.
	www.avalanchepress.com /TheyShallNotPassTactics3.php (6999 words)

	Lone Star Historical Miniatures » Lessons to Learn from the Operations of 29 May- 4 June 1918 by General Gaucher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 164th Division did no more or less than most other divisions: like the others, it had its hours of sadness and its days of glory.
		It then occupied in succession the Rheims sector (August and Semptember), the agitated Bezonvaux sector (November and December), then the Lunéville sector (January to May 1918).
		Maintained north of the Marne river in June and July 1918, it took a glorious part in the offensive of 18 July at the point nearest Paris, in ten days accomplishing an advance of 24 kilometers, taking twelve villages, numerous prisoners, and important amounts of matériel.
	www.lshm.net /?p=6 (3012 words)

	Chaotic Culture Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the area of Ipres, many locations remember the battle in Flanders Fields and all over this part of Europe one can find American, Canadian and British cemeteries.
		Most shocking is the Verdun-region, where the tragedy of war is symbolized in the Memorial, the cemetery, the trenches and the completely destroyed and vanished villages of Douaumont, Vaux, Fleury and Bezonvaux.
		Impressive is the ‘Ossuary’, the burial of 130,000 French and German soldiers fallen during the fights.
	www.chaoticculturemagazine.com /content/view/111/2 (1828 words)

	Verdun News
		Bezonvaux, Sacrifié pour Verdun - Bezonvaux village détruit pendant la Grande Guerre
		already gives away, the books describes the village of Bezonvaux during the battle of Verdun which was fought in vicinity of this small village.
		Besides the situation during the conflict it also deals with the situation both before as after it.
	www.xs4all.nl /~verdun/Engels/news/news.htm (6241 words)

	St. Mihiel Trip-Wire: May 2006
		Immediately volunteering for service -- despite parliamentary immunity -- Maginot took the train to Verdun to join his regiment, the 44th Territorial Infantry, part of which formed the garrison of Fort Douaumont.
		A few days later the newly mobilized Territorials made camp in a clearing close to the country road from Douaumont village to Bezonvaux, little dreaming that in February 1916 the same road would be crossed by German soldiers on their way to the fort.
		The Territorials were a cheerful group and Maginot’s memoir of patrols and ambushes among the villages below the fort is high-spirited and carefree.
	www.worldwar1.com /tgws/smtw0506.htm (3442 words)

	BEZONVAUX mairie, loisirs, tourisme BEZONVAUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		BEZONVAUX Mairie, Office de Tourisme, Culture, Loisirs, Plans...
		Pour être mis en relation avec le site de la commune BEZONVAUX
		La Mairie de BEZONVAUX est membre de de la COMMUNAUTE-DE-COMMUNES-DE-CHARNY-SUR-MEUSE
	www.bezonvaux.mairie.com (45 words)

	December 15 1916 - French Capture 7,500 in Big Verdun Drive; Smash Six-Mile Front
		A great number of prisoners were taken, 7,500 having been counted so far.
		The French troops captured the villages of Vacherauville and Louvemont, the fortified farm of Cambrettes, and the fortified field works of Hardaumont and Bezonvaux.
		Besides numerous trenches we captured the villages of Vacherauville and Louvemont, the farms of Chambrettes, and the fortified works of Hardoumont and Bezonvaux.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/807126/posts (1857 words)

	History of the 26th "Yankee" Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The battalions, reduced to mere skeletons at their effective strength, were pushed forward slowly but steadily in the face of the heaviest opposition, the enemy yielding only very gradually.
		Finally, at 11 o'clock, of November 11th, the line attained extended southward from Ville-devant-Chaumont, past Cap de Bon Esperance and St. Andre Farm, to the vicinity of the Ouvrage de Bezonvaux, where the cessation of hostilities brought the active operations of the Division to a conclusion.
		A few days earlier, on November 6th, Colonel F. Hume, of the 103rd Infantry, had been succeeded by Lieut.-Colonel C. Dowell.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/military/26thDivisionYD/26thDivisionHistory1919.htm (6526 words)

	MagBaz Travels - 1999 July (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Sweden)
		One moving photo showed peasants up a ladder mending their roof after a shell damaged it - they didn't know what was yet to come.
		On quiet, narrow forest roads, we passed the sites of more lost villages - Bezonvaux, Ornes and Louvemont - before dropping to the main road at Bras and over the Meuse to Charny-sur-Meuse.
		We raided the village baker's and had a picnic on the green, then retraced Rosie's route of yesterday, up the hill to the Ossuary, pausing this time at the Trench of the Bayonets.
	www.magbaztravels.com /content/view/453/0 (8838 words)

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