Timeline for Were iconic structures intentionally destroyed in 20th century wars?
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 6:34 | comment | added | jwenting | given the accuracy of artillery at the time, anything aimed at a place several city blocks away had a chance to hit the cathedral. Of course during a prolonged bombardment, aim can be adjusted to be more accurate, but from what you write here they fired only a few shots, several of which seem to have caused damage (and the only shots deliberately aimed were not heavy fire, but grape shot, effectively oversized shotgun shells aimed to kill exposed troops on the roofs). | |
| Mar 19, 2015 at 10:12 | history | edited | gdir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 5:45 | comment | added | user5001 | Your source doesn't seem to actually say it was deliberate, just that France claimed it was. The Germans claimed there were French troops in front, might have hit the cathedral by accident | |
| S Mar 18, 2015 at 20:20 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/French#Adjective> and <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/German#Adjective>).
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| Mar 18, 2015 at 13:24 | comment | added | gdir | At the end of WW I they used the Paris Gun to shoot at Paris. But I think they were unable to target a specific building with this gun. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 13:13 | comment | added | SJuan76 | Didn't the Germans also target Nôtre-Dame at Paris? IIRC they did only minor manage. | |
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| Mar 18, 2015 at 10:46 | history | answered | gdir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |