. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. he doom of the Hun was sounded when Amer-ican long range cannon dropped shells Oct. 28 onLonguyon, a station on the Sedan-Metz days later other points on the railroad werebrought within easy artillery range and the Ger-mans began retreating at all points in the west atonce. When American and French troops reachedSedan, Nov. 7, the end of the war was only a mat-ter of days. The Germans were going back as fastas 20 miles a day in places and the German armis-tice delegates were begging Marshal Foch to sus-pend hostiliti
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. he doom of the Hun was sounded when Amer-ican long range cannon dropped shells Oct. 28 onLonguyon, a station on the Sedan-Metz days later other points on the railroad werebrought within easy artillery range and the Ger-mans began retreating at all points in the west atonce. When American and French troops reachedSedan, Nov. 7, the end of the war was only a mat-ter of days. The Germans were going back as fastas 20 miles a day in places and the German armis-tice delegates were begging Marshal Foch to sus-pend hostilities. It was most appropriate that one of the last vic-tories of the war should be at Sedan. The Germanshad been celebrating Sedan day, Sept. 2, everyyear since 1870, when a French army of 150,000men and a French emperor in that city surrenderedto a German army. In less than four months from July 18 to , the Germans lost 500,000 taken prisoners and1,500,000 killed or wounded. The German armysurrendered when more than half of it had beenput out of :^l w/ E iff If
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