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Somme is a department of France , located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river . It is part of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region of France . The north central area of the Somme was the site of a series of battles during World ...
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By the 29th he was across the Ailette and threatening to turn the whole German position south of the Somme at Chauny.
British troops began to nibble at the point of the salient on the Ancre which had been created by the battle of the Somme.
Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.
German retirement on the Somme and the Ancre to the Hindenburg line took place.
Rochechouart, dit le bonhomme Jadis, mais alors nous sommes voisins, mademoiselle.
Ourteau pour expliquer sa situation a son frere, et lui demander de le sauver en consentant une garantie hypothecaire pour une somme de cent cinquante mille francs.
Paradis terrestre un peu vieilli, mais, en somme, pas beaucoup change.
Nous sommes presque sortis du quartier administratif, ce ne sera plus long.
Nous sommes a Notre-Dame de Liesse, autrefois si frequentee et maintenant delaissee et tombee dans un morne abandon.
Caux, a droite la baie de la Somme, puis les cotes basses de Picardie, et, tout en face, la haute mer.
A la place ou nous sommes, sans doute, une vierge barbare, plus blanche que Polyxene, fut egorgee comme la fille de Priam.
Allies in 1916 was not limited to the Russian, French, and Italian fronts, and there is a diplomatic story that when the battle of the Somme seemed unlikely to produce the fruits expected from it, pressure was put by one or more Western Powers upon Rumania to intervene.
Alsace, from the Maginot Line, from Africa, and from every other quarter, were to form a front along the Somme.
France, behind the Somme, the 51st Highland Division, which had been withdrawn from the Maginot Line and was in good condition, and the 52d Lowland Division, which was arriving in Normandy.
None of them wanted to go, for it was late in the day and they feared that French patrols might be waiting on the track that twisted endlessly through the dunes and reedbeds that stretched towards the Somme.