2h 41min, feb 21, 1916 y - Battle of Verdun
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The Germans mounted an attack on the French at Verdun designed to ‘bleed the French dry’. Although the fighting went on for nine months, the battle was inconclusive. Deaths were enormous on both sides with the Germans losing 430,000 men and the French 540,000.
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