page_title: Chaumont, Haute-Marne
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Chaumont, Haute-Marne / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: L' Hôtel de Ville, mise en lumière
context_page_description: Chaumont is a commune of France, and the capital of the Haute-Marne department. As of 2013, it has a population of 23,011.
  The city stands on the river Marne and is situated on the railway linking Paris and Basel, which runs over a 52 m tall and 600 m long viaduct built in 1856.
context_section_description: Historically the seat of the Counts of Bassigny and later of Champagne, Chaumont was the venue of an offensive treaty against Napoleon I signed by the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia in 1814. Chaumont was bombed in 1940 and 1944 during World War II. From 1951 to 1967, the United States Air Force under NATO operated the Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base on the outskirts of the city.
caption: Town hall
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