Monument commémoratif de Monsec

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La butte de Montsec () is a hill-witness on the coast of Meuse, in the French department of Meuse, Lorraine, in the Grand Est administrative region of France.

American monument: At the top of the hill, at an altitude of 377 metres, is a monument commemorating the offensives carried out by the American army on the salient of Saint-Mihiel (about 15 kilometres west of Montsec) during the First World War, from September 12 to 15 and from November 9 to 11, 1918. The monument, erected in 1932 as Euville stone, consists of a neoclassical colonnade rotunda, whose centre is occupied by an orientation table on which is carved a bronze map illustrating the battlefield. During the Second World War, the site was reinvested by the German army to form a protected surveillance point, then resumed by an allied aerial offensive accompanied by bombardments. On this occasion, the monument was slightly damaged and later repaired. It was classified as a historical monument by an order of 7 April 1975. The monument is also a symbol of cooperation between...