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Argonne   /ˈɑrgˌɑn/  /ˈɑrgˌoʊn/   Listen
Argonne

noun
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: Argonne Forest, Meuse, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation, Meuse River.



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"Argonne" Quotes from Famous Books



... couldn't shoot.' Abe sort of laughed. 'Reckon I was thinkin' about what Dad called shootin'.'... Well, Abe and his brothers got to France to the front. Abe was a sharpshooter. He was killed at Argonne. Both his brothers were wounded. They're over there yet.... I met a man not long ago who'd seen Jones recently. And the old pioneer said he and his wife would like to be back home. And home to them means ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey

... the young college man seemed peculiarly fitted. There were several Michigan men among the first aviation sections in France; several were killed and others captured in early combats. The arrival of the later contingents brought Michigan men with every division; they were everywhere in the Argonne battle, they were with the famous "lost battalion," and with the American forces included in the British sectors, as well as among the engineers who helped to stop the gap after the disaster to the Fifth ...
— The University of Michigan • Wilfred Shaw

... a year ago——! He remembered a black night of storm, when, hooded like a falcon—he had ridden without a light on his motorcycle, carrying dispatches from the Argonne, and even as he had ridden, he had felt that high sense of heroic endeavor. On the success of his mission depended other lives, the ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey

... in the north. That was the Argonne, where the Crown Prince was busily getting rid of a few thousands of his father's faithful subjects in order to secure himself the reversion of his father's throne. No man likes losing his job, and when at long last the inner history of this war comes to be written, we may find that ...
— France At War - On the Frontier of Civilization • Rudyard Kipling

... which the Americans participated was the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The goal of this attack was the Carignan-Sedan-Mezieres railroad, which ran parallel to the front and comprised the main supply line of the enemy. The drive began late in September and continued with greater or less intensity and with increasing success until November ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... 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



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