. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . Fig. 84—Block diagram of the northern Argc ARGONNE PLATEAU 339. plateaus, showing the salient features of the terrain. it is cut in the backslope ofthe Argonne cuesta (), somewhat as the MeuseRiver is cut in the back-slope of the Meuse cuestaand the Moselle River inthe backslope of the Mo-selle cuesta. This wouldseem to suggest that thesame geological historywhich had operated togive the Meuse arid Mo-selle valleys their peculiarpositions was beginningto operate in the case ofthe Aisne. All we n
. Battlefields of the World War, western and southern fronts; a study in military geography . Fig. 84—Block diagram of the northern Argc ARGONNE PLATEAU 339. plateaus, showing the salient features of the terrain. it is cut in the backslope ofthe Argonne cuesta (), somewhat as the MeuseRiver is cut in the back-slope of the Meuse cuestaand the Moselle River inthe backslope of the Mo-selle cuesta. This wouldseem to suggest that thesame geological historywhich had operated togive the Meuse arid Mo-selle valleys their peculiarpositions was beginningto operate in the case ofthe Aisne. All we needto observe here, how-ever, is the fact that theArgonne barrier is rein-forced against an at-tack coming from theeast by this paralleltrench near its west-ern base, even if theAisne trench has con-siderably less defen-sive value than thedeeper moats of theMeuse and Moselle. Defiles of theA rgonne Of the trans-verse valleys ofthe Argonne themost impressive 340 BATTLEFIELD OF VERDUN by far is the broad trench of the Aire, which from Grandprecuts squarely across the barrier to the Aisne lowland near Chal-lerange (Fig. 84). A railroad of some military i
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