Battle of Metz
{'<entity_0>': 'Battle of Metz', '<entity_1>': '27 September 1944', '<entity_2>': '13 December 1944', '<entity_3>': 'Lorraine', '<entity_4>': 'battle', '<entity_5>': 'France', '<entity_6>': 'Metz'}
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The <entity_0> was a <entity_4> fought during World War II at the city of <entity_6>, <entity_5>, from late <entity_1> through mid-December between the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lieutenant General George Patton and the German Army commanded by General Otto von Knobelsdorff. The city was captured by U.S. forces and hostilities formally ceased on 22 November; the last of the forts defending <entity_6> surrendered on <entity_2>. By the end of August 1944, German forces in <entity_3> had managed to reestablish a defensive line around <entity_6> and Nancy. <entity_6> was surrounded by forts built by the Germans between 1870 and 1919, then allowed to decay by the French, who possessed the <entity_3> region until it was retaken by Germany in 1940. The German commanders of the <entity_6> forts were required to follow Hitler's "hold at all costs" order when attacked, in <entity_1>, by the U.S. Third Army led by General George S. Patton, who had reached Verdun before Eisenhower's order to halt the advance and conserve supplies. The last of the forts at <entity_6> to surrender was Fort Jeanne d'Arc, which capitulated to the U.S. III Corps on <entity_2>.
['battle', 'siege']