 The battery's Mougin casemate was entirely demolished after World War II by the French Army.In 1914 the fort was manned by personnel of the French Fourth Army, under the overall command of General Fernand de Langle de Cary.The fort had been hastily garrisoned after the defeat of French forces in Belgium with two companies of the 45th Territorial Infantry Regiment and 300 territorial artillerymen, under the command of Commandant Georges Lévi Alvarès.