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Argonne

Argonne \Argonne\ n. 1. an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the Armistice on November 11.

Syn: Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation

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Argonne

Argonne may refer to:

  • The Forest of Argonne, France
  • Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. D.O.E. National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois
  • Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also called the Battle of Argonne Forest, a World War I battle
  • Argonne, South Dakota, a ghost town in the United States
  • Argonne, Wisconsin, a town, US
  • Argonne (CDP), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, US
  • , a U.S. Navy auxiliary ship, commissioned in 1921

  • Argonne (automobile), a short-lived U.S. car company
  • Argonne Rebels, a Division I drum and bugle corps from Great Bend, Kansas
  • Hotel Argonne, a historic hotel in downtown Lima, Ohio, United States
Argonne (automobile)

The Argonne was an American automobile manufactured from 1919 to 1920 by the Jersey City Machine Co. of Jersey City, New Jersey.

Only 24 were produced before the company folded. The prototype car was a sports roadster with an aluminum body crafted by the Schutte Body Co. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was powered by an inline-four Buda engine. A Rochester-Duesenberg power plant was also available. Production models included a roadster on a wheelbase, and some sources list an open Tourer model on a wheelbase.

The marque featured a sharply pointed radiator similar to that found on the Austro-Daimler.

Category:Vintage vehicles Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States

Usage examples of "argonne".

An agent of Rauch Ishikari had chartered a vessel, the Argonne , and none knew where it was bound.

Barely had they embarked when the Argonne landed to discharge its own load.

He sat in the salon of the Argonne , his face marked with lines of fatigue.

The Argonne was in space, drifting high above Raniang, the captain following his instructions.

The Argonne had landed in a wide cleft to one side of a line running from the Temple to the Hsing-Tiede complex.

The Argonne Forest, however, nurses the headwaters, not only of the Marne, but also of the Meuse, which indeed passes to within a few miles of Nijmegen.

Cloud up the Marne, the Countess had disembarked in the vicinity of the Argonne—which as your majesty well knows was an active theatre of military operations during these weeks—and made some sort of overland journey that had eventually taken her to the Meuse, and via the Meuse to Nijmegen where we have our first report of her from d’Avaux’s informants.

The dark forest Argonne rises up behind it, and somewhere through those woods runs the border separating France from Lorraine.

I am catching up on it now, in a carriage on a bumpy road in the Argonne.

Louis’ empire, which now is interrupted in the Argonne, will be extended across and down the Rhine, as far as Mannheim and Heidelberg, and when domestic tranquillity is finally restored to St.

The Argonne is a broad ridge running from north to south, directly across our path, and in many places the ground drops away into deep river-courses.

Here in the Argonne Forest, though, it rated as a significant Fire Hazard.

I was in a temporary sickbay of the transport Argonne, and I really had had a platoon of my own for nearly twelve hours.

I was in the Argonne more than a month, first as a patient, then as an unattached casual, before they got around to delivering me and a few dozen others to Sanctuary.

Nevertheless, when I was let out of bed the first week I was in the Argonne, after loafing and brooding a day I borrowed some books from one of the junior officers and got to work.