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Pr&#233;sentationLa Grande Guerre n&#8217;est pas seulement une histoire de fantassins combattant au prix de lourdes pertes dans le no man&#8217;s land, ou de pilotes se battant au-dessus des champs de bataille. Plus m&#233;connue, la guerre des mines est pourtant une part essentielle de la guerre de position. Les soldats qui se battaient sous terre sont malheureusement moins bien connus que leurs fr&#232;res d&#8217;armes de surface et restent aujourd&#8217;hui bien trop peu &#233;tudi&#233;s. En effet, dans une guerre compl&#232;tement statique, le contr&#244;le du sous-sol repr&#233;sente un avantage tactique sur l&#8217;adversaire. Concr&#232;tement, comment les tunneliers organisaient-ils le conflit sous terre ? Pour faciliter leur formation, les  milieux miniers ont contribu&#233; massivement &#224; la cr&#233;ation des unit&#233;s de tunneliers. D&#232;s lors, comment les comp&#233;tences des mineurs ont-elles &#233;t&#233; employ&#233;es sur le front et comment l&#8217;arm&#233;e a-t-elle g&#233;r&#233;e la concentration d&#8217;une classe professionnelle aux revendications sociales fortes, m&#234;me en temps de guerre ? PresentationAccounts of soldiers fighting in trenches and pilots fighting in the air over the battlefields have long become the norm in what we read and watch when looking at the history of the Great War. Lesser known is a war within a war that took place deep under the battlefields, the tunnelling war.The men who fought underground are less well known than their surface brothers in arms, and remain today less well studied. As the war lost its movement and became static it was vital to gain control both above and below ground, to gain tactical advantage over the enemy. How did the tunnellers fight their war underground? How were they organised? What kind of people made up this special band of men? Men from the mining communities were recruited into the army to lend their skills and trade in order to fight the war underground. How were the miners skills used at the front and how did the army manage to deal with this band of free thinking men within its ranks? Libre acc&#232;s /     Free accessProgramme (9h30-16h30)9h30Accueil / Welcome9h45IntroductionPremi&#232;re partie : La guerre des mines allemande     / Part One: German military mining    10h00 Dierk Willig    Les mines allemandes sur les fronts occidental et oriental durant la Grande Guerre / German military mining on the western and eastern fronts in the Great War    10h30 Markus Klauer    La guerre des mines men&#233;es par les Allemands dans les for&#234;ts d&#8217;Argonne / German Mine Warfare in the Forests of Argonne11h00 Questions, discussion11h15 Pause / Morning TeaDeuxi&#232;me partie : Des sp&#233;cialistes civils / Part Two: Civilian specialists    11h30 Simon Jones    La guerre souterraine &#224; La Boisselle : l&#8217;&#233;tude de cas du d&#233;veloppement de la mine militaire 1914-1916 / Underground Warfare at La Boisselle: a case study of the development of military mining 1914-191612h00 D&#233;jeuner / Lunch    14h00 Peter Doyle    Mener la guerre souterraine pendant la Grande Guerre : l&#8217;apport de la g&#233;ologie militaire / The application of military geology to the prosecution of mine warfare in the Great War14h30 Questions, discussion14h45 Pause / Afternoon TeaTroisi&#232;me partie : Des mineurs dans les rangs / Part Three: Miners in the ranks    15h00 Anthony Byledbał    Un double combat : syndicalistes et tunneliers n&#233;o-z&#233;landais / Twin struggles: New Zealand Trade Unionists and Tunnellers    15h30 Ritchie Wood    Les mineurs gallois et les compagnies de tunneliers / Welsh Miners and the Tunnelling Companies16h00 Questions, discussion16h15 Conclusion provisoire / Temporary conclusion