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Fort Vaux was built from 1881–1884. The fort had been modernised before 1914 with additional reinforced concrete top protection like Fort Douaumont. Fort Vaux became the second Fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun after Fort Douaumont which was virtually undefended and had been captured by a small German raiding party in February 1916. On 9 August 1915, the French General Staff decided to evacuate the forts around Verdun. and the guns were removed from the Fort,to deploy them elsewhere. The French even preparing to blow up the fort, blasting holes were drilled in the walls and domes, and explosives were stored in the fort. Over 800kg explosives, were stored under the the 75mm tower which exploded later during a bombardment on February 21, 1916 this destroyed, various walkways and the 75mm tower. On March 1916,Major Raynal, the commander of the Fort Vaux, was ordered to occupy the fort again and defend it, and the damage done by their own hands was repaired. But some of the damage could not be repaired and the Bourges casemates could not be fitted with the 75 mm field guns so these guns were replaced by machine guns. Fort de Vaux, was garrisoned when it was attacked on June 2 until june 5 by German assault troops. After intense shelling,with shells from Lange Max and Big Bertha the superstructure of the fort was badly damaged but the deep interior corridors and stations remained intact, but the fort was cut off from the outside world. The Germans attacked with flamethrowers and it came to hand to hand combat. on June 7 the fort was in German hand and the Germans started to repair the fort as good as possible. Both Bourges casemates were reinforced with sandbags and machine guns were placed back in. Also mortars were placed in the fort. After the fall of the fort the French started with artillery fire, but the fort held out. The firts attack from the French would follow on October 24, but this would fail with heavy losses. Only after a French counterattack with 400 mm railway gun that was brought close the fort, and On 2 November the German staff just decided to leave the fort and blow up. The fort was regularly shelled by German artillery, until March 1917. The french started repairing the fort until the 1930s. June 15, 1940, fort Vaux was handed over to the German troops, without any fighting. Today the fort can be visited, and there is a small museum inside the fort. But only a small part of it is accessible, this because of the amount of damage the fort took in the battle and some parts collapsed in the 80's ■ Facebook:  / panzerpicture   ■ Facebook Group:  / panzerpicture   ■ Twitter:  / panzerpicture   ■ Information obtained from several sites. ■ Wikipedia. ■ tanks-encyclopedia.com ■http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_... ■http://preservedtanks.com/ ■http://www.pantser.net/ ■ http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_F... ■ Some music is from the YouTube Audio Library. ■ Music used: Mattia Cupelli - Redemption Download:http://www.mediafire.com/download/epx... Mattia Cupelli - The Phoenix Download:http://www.mediafire.com/download/41v... RFGB Music Flight Hymn (Copyright and Royalty Free) Download:http://www.mediafire.com/download/o67... Rapture (Copyright and Royalty Free) Download: http://adf.ly/paBWv Last Dawn (Copyright and Royalty Free) Download: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/jd9ae... Apocalypse (Copyright and Royalty Free) Download: http://adf.ly/paBFY Alan Walker - Fade Free Download @ http://nocopyrightsounds.co.uk/video/... Ahrix - Nova Free Download @ http://nocopyrightsounds.co.uk/video/... Cloister of Redemption by Jens Kiilstofte https://machinimasound.com/music/cloi... Dystopia by Per Kiilstofte https://machinimasound.com/music/dyst... End Game by Per Kiilstofte https://machinimasound.com/music/end-... Rallying the Defense by Per Kiilstofte https://machinimasound.com/music/rall... Battle of Kings by Per Kiilstofte (Machinimasound) https://machinimasound.com/music/batt... The Land of the Wizard by Per Kiilstofte (Machinimasound) | https://machinimasound.com/music/the-... Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)