Jacque Christopher Sauvage was one of the French teachers who walked the battleground and attended the monument dedication ceremony to the Lost Battalion with his students.

Verdun: myths and memories of the 'lost villages' of France Ninety years ago today, a German shell dropped on a small French village, the start of 10 months of carnage. John Lichfield looks at a ...

World War I: The Lost Battalion of the Argonne Forest French battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan and historian Mitchell Yockelson visited a memorial and remnants of World War I trenches in France ...

French politics are reviewed along with their divisive role in military preparedness and general government. The “Lost History…” is actually a buried history. The French army controlled all ...

VERDUN, FRANCE — In solemn ceremonies Sunday in the forests of eastern France, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked 100 years since the Battle of Verdun ...

And the cost of the battle had been enormously high on both sides: The French lost 160,000 men; the Germans, 140,000. Verdun was World War I combat at its worst — “very impersonal and very, very ...

World War I's Battle of Verdun began with a German artillery attack on French positions on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It's considered the longest battle in modern warfare.

Jacob Rangitsch was part of a U.S. Army battalion of 600-some soldiers and untrained recruits who broke through German lines and were surrounded for six days in the French forest, fighting with ...

The reason this story is so important is that in spite of great odds the Lost Battalion was saved. An old film was taken soon after their rescue, showing the Lost Battalion coming down the hill.