[Labels, from left to right: Montfaucon Wood, Vauquois Spur.]
SKETCH-MAP OF THE BATTLEFIELD, AS SEEN BY THE GERMANS
FROM THE EMINENCE OF MONTFAUCON.
AVOCOURT VILLAGE IN MARCH, 1916.
VI.—From Montfaucon to Avocourt
From Montfaucon return by the same road to Malancourt.
The bad state of the Malancourt–Avocourt road (May, 1919) does not allow it to be taken from the former to the latter locality. (The road passes through the woods of the same names, disputed with incredible fierceness.) The tourist should, therefore, return to the Wayside Cross at Esnes, along the same road that he came by.
From Esnes Cross (see [p. 100]), take on the right the road to Avocourt, which marks approximately the extreme limit of the battlefield W. of Verdun.