1 million shells in 10 hours is About 1666 shells falling per minute .  To put that fire rate in perspective, the famous mg-42 had a fire rate of roughly 1500 rounds per minute.  Each shell sounding like a jumbo jet crash landing on a battlefield you could walk in an afternoon

THANK YOU for talking about that "bleed france white" catch phrase that everyone takes for granted and never realise the context

In the game verdun. Douamont is a (lets say it nicely) a difficult place to attack.

Hello Mr Chris, there is a story telling game named “valiant hearts: The Great War”
I think it’s a really nice game, it’s about characters who were living peacefully and got dragged to the war forcefully and witnessing its horror.
It also has something really nice which is like collectibles, collectibles with their history and a picture sometimes, really brilliant game and hope you upload on it.

Baldrick:  I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.
Blackadder:  I think you mean it started when the Archduke of Austro-Hungary got shot.
Baldrick:  Nah, there was definitely an ostrich involved, sir.

I miss playing BF1's Verdun map, it was epic.

For some perspective, the 300mm and 370mm guns the French used are roughly 12.5 and 15 inch guns. They are essentially battleship guns put of railroad cars, and some of the largest land artillery ever constructed.

Finally more Armchair historian!

About unexploded shells, i saw a long time ago a cemetery of agricultural machinery in the sector of the Somme . There were hundreds of tractors, harvesters destroyed . It was 50 years after fights were over . A few years ago i went to my mother near Charleville ( you know : the rifle); the road was blocked because of the discovery of a german underground ammunition depot . It contained chemical shells . It's not over, even today . The powder is tired now, but.....

36:16 There's a video I saw here which told a story about a bunch of teens who went camping near a battleground in France. They unknowingly built their campfire directly over top of an unexploded artillery shell. It detonated in the night, ending several of their lives, and nobody escaped uninjured.

Most plants won't even grow around Verdun due to all the chemicals leached into the soil from all the artillery shells. I've never been there, but the pictures I've seen look like someone took a picture of a choppy ocean and photoshopped dirt & grass over it, with the occasional scraggly tree thrown in.

I'll never understand how someone can go through a battle like that and have any amount of sanity left.

It MUST be near-impossible to walk the fields there because of  the ground having been chewedup and vast amounts of off-limits areas. ---Bob Bailey, military historian from Bangor, Maine, USA

Ils ne passeront pas!

On April 19, 1916, Joffre, who found Pétain too defensive at Verdun, decided to appoint Nivelle to command of the Second Army until December 15 and his charge at Verdun ended on December 19, i.e. until the day after the end of the battle. As for Pétain, he was promoted to command of the Center Army Group, Nivelle took command on May 1. He failed to recapture Fort Douaumont from the Germans alongside General Mangin, an operation during which critics attributed little consideration to human life.
When i learned about him in Elementary school, his name was associated with some terms : butcher, cold, haughty .

One thing that I think most people don’t remember is that Charles de gaulle fought at verdun and was captured and was a pow for the rest of World War One

In Alistair Horne's book on Verdun ("The Price of Glory"), he states that, "For free people, the choice is always the choice between Verdun and Dachau." ---Bob Bailey in Maine

Went to Verdun 2 years ago. The top of Fort de Douaumont was like the moon, with all the craters. And the cemetery right behind it is stunning. Absolutely an erie and awe-inspiring place to see. Also did find one of those abandoned villages, which again was just creepy.

The Czechoslovak Legion! I think it may be one of the most breathtaking stories around.

Excellent as ever.   My French wife's great grandfather was an engineer in the French army just after the war and was sent to Verdun in 1919 to help clear the battlefield of unexploded shells.  Despite this being after the fighting has finished his family have often said that he was never the same afterwards, changed by the conditions he had to work in and the risks he faced every day.  He died very young from a serious lung condition and his family were adamant that this was due to background levels of gas leaking from the munitions (apparently the whole area stank for years afterwards).

I went to Verdun myself a few years back (happily for a wedding between German and French friends) and took some time out to visit the battlefields.  Even after 100 years it was still shocking.  I would hate to imagine what it was like during and just after the war.

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You add a great info and insight to every topic even when you say you don't know much about, correcting mistakes that could effect the perception of the topic, add your own humor moments as well as mourning the tragic events...you're the only person that i would have fun sitting for hours continuously to watch

thank god for YouTube suggestions that made me find your channel, and for the day you were thinking and said to yourself "alright, I'll start making content and give it a try"
You're my absolutely favorite person on the internet and i learned so much from you

much love from bonn, Westphalia, Germany 🖤🤍❤

As an Iraqi war veteran, I can not imagine what these men went through.