Outcome
The Battle of Verdun ended as a French tactical victory, but it came at a high cost for both sides. The German High Command had failed to achieve its two objectives, which were to capture the city of Verdun and to inflict a much higher casualty count on its French adversary; in fact, the Germans suffered nearly as many deaths as the French. By the end of the battle, in December 1916, the French Second Army had rolled back the German forces around Verdun, but not quite to their initial positions of February 1916.
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