Fort St. Michel

Overgrown exterterior wall of Fort St. Michel, June 2018.

Exterior wall and entrance overlooking dry moat, May 1917.

Interior view of one of the rooms inside Fort St. Michel, June 2016.

Fort St. Michel an early fortification built near Verdun to the northeast of the city and is one of the six "panic redoubts" constructed in the mid 1870's. Unlike some of the other early fortifications St. Michel was never modernized, and by the start of the battle its artillery weapons had been removed and relocated for use on the front lines. The fort lies roughly 2.5 km to the northeast of city, and did not see significant action during the battle.