Battle of Lorette Hill

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The Battle of Lorette Hill was a series of military engagements between the armies of Germany and France on the Western front of World War I, lasting from October 1915 to September 1915. The fighting took place neat the Notre Dame de Lorette chapel on the Coquaine Hill, Pas-de-Calais in north-western France. Strategically important uphill post was occupied by the Germans on 7 October 1914 during the battle of Arras, since then their positions were attacked by the French army during the First Battle of Artois and Second Battle of Artois finally retaking the whole site in the Third Battle of Artois in September 1915. The battlefield later became a place of the biggest military necropolis of the French soldiers containing the remains of about 40,000 men.

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Battle of Lorette Hill
Place de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Lens

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Nécropole nationale de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

Place de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
62153 Lens
Hauts-de-France, France
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