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Argonne   Listen
noun
Argonne  n.  
1.
An American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the Armistice on November 11.
Synonyms: Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation





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"Argonne" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not all there, and they knew it. Some of them lay in the Argonne, or at Chateau-Thierry, and for them peace had come too late. But the Americans, like the rest of the world, had put the past behind them. Here was the present, the glorious present, and Paris on a sunny Monday. And after that ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... upon the eighty thousand humans the throbbing realization that they were witnessing a sample of raw-handed courage such as men display only when under some great, compelling influence—an influence inspired by a necessity equalling a Marne or an Argonne to them—an influence which cried out above the bruising tide of battle, "They shall not ...
— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman
... Lieutenant Colonel Scott had orders to proceed to the railhead, and then advance on foot into the Argonne. ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather


Words linked to "Argonne" :   Argonne Forest, World War 1, Meuse-Argonne operation, battle of St Mihiel, military operation, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, Great War


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