The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . againstthe Americans were some of the pickedregiments of German troops, veterans offour years of fighting. West of the riverand northwest of Verdun, the great Ar-gonne forest was almost impenetrable inplaces, but the Americans found this sortof fighting to their liking and their advancewas slow but relentless. What was knownas the Kriemhilde-Stellung line ran fromGrande Pre to Montfaucon and Damvil-liers. This was regarded as one of thestrongest links in the Hindenburg defensesystem, but the Americans went thro
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . againstthe Americans were some of the pickedregiments of German troops, veterans offour years of fighting. West of the riverand northwest of Verdun, the great Ar-gonne forest was almost impenetrable inplaces, but the Americans found this sortof fighting to their liking and their advancewas slow but relentless. What was knownas the Kriemhilde-Stellung line ran fromGrande Pre to Montfaucon and Damvil-liers. This was regarded as one of thestrongest links in the Hindenburg defensesystem, but the Americans went throughthis as they had gone through everythingelse that had confronted them since theyhad become a fighting factor in Fi-ance. An idea of the nature of the ground overwhich the Americans had to advance maybe gathered from the fact that between theMeuse river and the Argonne, on a frontof twenty-three miles, there is only onehighway. The rest is all rough ground,heights along the river and the thicknessof the forest itself. Fresh Genuan unitswere identified in the fight almost every. Great German battleship Ersatz Baberii among those surrendered. 178 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK day. Entire divisions were used up in tlieattempt to stop the Americans, but theysteadily progressed. On October 1st theyhad passed Cierges and were driving forSedan, wliere, in 1870, the Frencli had suf-fered such humiliating defeat. The Amer-icans seemed peculiarly adapted to the sortof fighting they were now up against andtheir casualties were light compared tothose of the Germans. The stream of troops was pouring intoFrance without interruption now and in themontli of August the record was set of322,338 Yanl<ee fighters transported acrossthe Atlantic. By the middle of October the Argonnehad been practically cleared of weather had become cold and i-ainyby that time and no more trjing periodcan be written in the wars history tlianthe weeks along the Meuse and in the greatforest. But the Americans p
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