. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. o cities well knownfrom the manufacture of laces and textiles. Lens,and the extensive coal district about it, and Rheims,which contains a cathedral famous from medievaldays as the place where the French kings werecrowned. Rheims they were to lose soon after-wards, but the other cities they held for four years. Meantime the German Crown Prince, FrederickWilliam, had crossed the French border from Lux-emburg and captured Sedan, the small town whichwas made famous by the surrender of Marshal Mac-Mahons army and Emperor Napoleon III in
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. o cities well knownfrom the manufacture of laces and textiles. Lens,and the extensive coal district about it, and Rheims,which contains a cathedral famous from medievaldays as the place where the French kings werecrowned. Rheims they were to lose soon after-wards, but the other cities they held for four years. Meantime the German Crown Prince, FrederickWilliam, had crossed the French border from Lux-emburg and captured Sedan, the small town whichwas made famous by the surrender of Marshal Mac-Mahons army and Emperor Napoleon III in was later to be the scene of a French and Amer-ican victory in one of the last days of the war. The crown prince moved toward Verdun, oneof the principal fortresses in northeastern France,expecting to capture the place quickly. In this hefailed, and failed again two years later in probablythe longest and bloodiest battle fought in the wholewar on any piece of ground of such comparativelysmall dimensions. The French had made an attempt to invade Lor-. ?WW
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