Verdun, a strongly fortified town in the department of Meuse, 35 m. W. of Metz; capitulated to the Germans in 1870 after a siege of six weeks.
Population (circa 1900) given as 18,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Verdi, Giuseppe * Verestchagin