![]() The dynamic Frontlines game mode features 64 players taking turns to go over the top and attempt to capture the opposing trench line. The game offers 4 distinct game-modes with many historically accurate features such as realistic WW1 weaponry, authentic uniforms, horrendous gore, and maps based on the real battlefields of France and Belgium. The vicious close quarters nature of trench warfare means that skill with a bayonet can be as vital as good aim with a rifle. ![]() Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in a realistic World War One setting, the game which started the WW1 Game series. A monument in memory of André Maginot was dedicated near Verdun in September 1966.The game takes place on the Western Front between 19, in one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history - inspired by the infamous Battle of Verdun in 1916. In World War II, Germany was able to circumvent the line by passing its Panzers through hills and marshlands which had been impenetrable to tanks when Maginot made his recommendations. However, in the end the line was ineffectual for its intended purpose. He was mourned throughout France and it was only after his death that the line of defenses which he advocated came to bear his name. Though Maginot was the main proponent for the project, most of the actual designs for the Maginot line were the work of Paul Painlevé, Maginot's successor as Minister of War.Īndré Maginot never saw the line completed he became ill in December 1931 and died in Paris on 7 January 1932 of typhoid fever. He was especially pleased with the work in Lorraine, site of his family's home and where he spent his childhood, and fought for more funding for construction in that area. Maginot visited a work site in October 1930 and expressed satisfaction with the work. He was finally able to persuade Parliament to allocate 3.3 billion francs for the project (the upper house voted 274 to 26 in favor of the project a few days later). During the debate that year on the 1930 budget, André Maginot lobbied very heavily for the money needed to construct the enormous line of fortifications. ![]() But it was 1929 that would be the pivotal year for the fixed defenses that would come to be known as the Maginot Line. In 1926 Maginot was successful in getting the government to allocate money to build several experimental sections of the defensive line. He was also probably influenced by the destruction of his home in Revigny-sur-Ornain, which made him determined to prevent Lorraine from ever being invaded again. He was no doubt influenced in this decision by his observations of successful fortifications employed at Verdun in World War I. Maginot came to advocate building a series of defensive fortifications along France's border with Germany that would include a combination of field positions and permanent concrete forts. He continually pushed for more funds for defense and grew more distrustful of Germany during a period when few in France wanted to think about the possibility of another war. ![]() He expressed concern that the Treaty of Versailles did not leave France with sufficient security. He was also a fencer.Īfter World War I, Maginot returned to the Chamber of Deputies and served efficiently in a number of government posts, including Minister of Overseas France (20 March 1917 – 12 September 1917, 11 November 1928 – 3 November 1929 ), Minister of Pensions starting in 1920 and then Minister of War (1922–1924, 1929–1930, 1931–1932). For extreme valor, he was awarded the Medaille Militaire, France's highest military award. In November 1914, Maginot (by now promoted to sergeant for his "coolness and courage") was wounded in the leg near Verdun (he would walk with a limp for the rest of his life). When the war began, Maginot enlisted in the army and was posted along the Lorraine front. ![]() He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies that year and served as Under-Secretary of State for War just prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. He worked as the assistant of the Governor-General in Algeria until 1910, when he resigned and began his political career. After taking the civil service exam, in 1897 Maginot began his career in the French bureaucracy, where he would serve for the rest of his life. Maginot was born in Paris, but spent a part of his youth in Alsace-Lorraine, the region where later on the line of fortifications that he advocated would be constructed. The Memorial to André Maginot is located on the D112 on the Verdun battlefields ![]()
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