Cantigny


a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
Historical Examples

Our Army at the Front Heywood Broun
Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Percy Keese Fitzhugh
What the “Boys” Did Over There Various
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II Burton J. Hendrick
America’s War for Humanity Thomas Herbert Russell
Woodrow Wilson and the World War Charles Seymour
Our Army at the Front Heywood Broun
Woodrow Wilson and the World War Charles Seymour
Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Percy Keese Fitzhugh
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 Various

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