Scott's narration of the trip so far ..

(At Hougoumont, a critical objective for Napoleon at Waterloo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hougoumont)

Scott writes: Ed and I spent yesterday touring the battlefield at Verdun, France, yesterday after spending the previous roaming the rolling fields at Waterloo, where Napoleon met his match against allied Dutch, English and Prussian forces and the end of the French empire commenced. 
It was atop a wide, forested mountain at Verdun that the French and German armed forces threw everything they had at one another--including a fantastic 60 million artillery shells--over three years, 1915-1918. 

Edward at the site of the Battle of Waterloo

Standing on a high point overlooking the field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion's_Mound

The City of Verdun, France

Coffee in the city center.

WWI Veteran

He fought at the battle of Verdun. Click on the photo to enlarge and check the cool look of WWI fighter pilots.

WWI -- Verdun: one of the biggest battles in the history of the world

Some of the 700,000 soldiers who did not return from the Battle of Verdun (1915-1918)

Exterior of the fort Douamount

Looking east towards Germany

Interior of the French WWI fort

Interior of the fortress Douamount, site of a battle that saw over 1,000,000 artillery shells fired in a 10 hour bombardment.