title: Bois-le-Prêtre fighting
text: # Bois-le-Prêtre fighting
  
  Bois-le-Prêtre fighting (Priest's Wood, Priesterwald in German) was an engagement in the First World War between September 1914 and July 1915, involving the French 73rd Division and the 128th Division (the Wolves of Bois-le-Prêtre) and the German 121st Division.
  
  ## Situation
  
  Bois le Prêtre is a Lorraine forest, to the north-west of the town of Pont-a-Mousson near the Moselle River. In 1914 German troops attacked Verdun fortifications which are a strong point inside the French defenses lines.
  
  ## Facts
  
  * The villages of Regniéville, Remenauville and Fey-en-Haye were destroyed.
  * Bois-le-Pretre was one of the first mission of the volunteer American Ambulance's Field Service
  
  | German cemetery (Thiaucourt-Regniéville) | French Le Pétant cemetery (Montauville) | 1915 |
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