Casualties refers to dead, wounded or missing soldiers. The battle started ... ranging from capturing the town of Verdun to destroying the French army. Without a clear strategy, there was ...

The Commandant of Verdun was another dinner guest ... A young girl pins a flower on a World War I French soldier in Lorraine, France. Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams, Nat Geo Image Collection ...

Only the week before, the airship, which has been maneuvering about Paris successfully all summer, was driven from Paris to Verdun ... the easy loss by the French soldiers of their first national ...

With the majority of French forces tied up defending Verdun, the fighting at the Somme became the responsibility of British soldiers. Scottish battalions were at the heart of action during the battle.