Crossword clues for aisne
aisne
- Soissons's river
- River of the Argonne Forest
- Soissons' stream
- Tributary of the Oise
- River flowing into the Oise
- Scene of Allies' final victory in 1918
- River of France
- French department or river
- River of northern France
- Soissons' river
- River of the Argonne
- French river that was the site of three WWI battles
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of the départements of Picardie, France (INSEE code 02) 2 A river in the north of France, which flows into the Mayenne River
WordNet
Wikipedia
Aisne is a French department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne.
The Aisne is a river in northeastern France. It is a left tributary of the Oise. It gave its name to the French department of Aisne. It was known in the Roman period as Axona.
It rises in the forest of Argonne, at Rembercourt-Sommaisne, near Sainte-Menehould. It flows north and then west before joining the Oise near Compiègne. The Aisne is long. Its main tributaries are the Vesle, the Aire and the Suippe. Three bitter battles of World War I were fought into the valleys of the Aisne.
Aisne may refer to:
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Aisne, a French department named after:
- Aisne (river), left tributary of the river Oise River
- Aisne River, Belgium, tributary of the river Ourthe
- Aisne's 1st constituency, a French legislative constituency in the Aisne département
- Battle of the Aisne (disambiguation), three different battles during World War I
- Canal latéral à l'Aisne, is a canal in northern France, which connects Vieux-lès-Asfeld to Celles-sur-Aisne
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, a British coaster in service from 1950-60
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, a cargo ship ordered by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique during WWI but requisitioned on completion by the United States Shipping Board
Usage examples of "aisne".
The Germans had been driven out, it is true, but they had gone only a short distance to the east, and there, upon the banks of the Aisne, had securely entrenched themselves, venting their rage upon the City by daily bombardments.
If only the Germans had gone from their trenches on the Aisne, they and every one else in Rheims would have been quite comfortable, but alas!
You know their village is on a little stream which flows into the Aisne some distance beyond its junction with the Vesle.
Somme and Aisne, as though the forces cut off in the north did not exist.
THE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR It was in the days when the German armies had broken their way across France, and when the shattered forces of the young Republic had been swept away to the north of the Aisne and to the south of the Loire.
Some of these are in a cemetery that got in the way of the flood tide of the Battle of the Aisne.
At Paris, in the Aisne, in Haute-Loire, in Ille-et-Vilaine, in Maine-et- Loire, it excludes as unworthy the members of old Feuillants and monarchical clubs, and the signers of Constitutionalist protests.
Then he saw Moscow, then the Beresina, then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipsic, and the defiles of Glenhausen, then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Caron, the banks of the Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the formidable position at Laon.
A certain cure of Aisne who, in 1789, had fed two thousand poor, having presumed to read from his pulpit a pastoral charge concerning the observance of Lent, the mayor seizes him by the collar and prevents him from going to the altar.
After he perceived that all the forces of the Belgae, which had been collected in one place, were approaching toward him, and learned from the scouts whom he had sent out, and [also] from the Remi, that they were then not far distant, he hastened to lead his army over the Aisne, which is on the borders of the Remi, and there pitched his camp.