Word: bellicourt
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...Chief of Staff, and even though 18 months later his fortifications had fallen and his cause was lost, he had earned his brassard. When on September 29, 1918 the men of the U. S. II Corps went up against the final defenses of his Siegfried Position at Bellicourt, they had hell's own time. Between Bellicourt and Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside...
...cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson of Vermont and Duffy of Wisconsin, who dared not sail until after the Court Bill's solemn political interment in Washington (TIME, Aug. 2). They were to arrive in time to dedicate other" tasteful monuments at Flanders Field, Bellicourt, Cantigny, Gibraltar, Château-Thierry...
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