Regional1940

Battle of Laon

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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France

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Laon (1940), part of the World War II. Germany defeated France.

Belligerents2

Germany
France

ON THE MAPThird Reich (1941)

Conflict graph

PART OFWorld War II

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Laon (1940). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-laon-1940 · Sources & methodology