He planned to use a relatively small number of men to capture the high ground to the north of Verdun and then to inflict enormous casualties on the French using his superior German artillery to ...

a communications officer responsible for repairing the telephone line to the French artillery batteries (eventually most communications had to go by messengers, who predictably suffered a very ...

In a similar vein is the French 75, which got its name from World ... the cannon revolutionized the nature of artillery. The weapon provided France a newfound advantage in World War I, by way ...