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The Marne is a river in France , an eastern tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris . It is long. The river gave its name to the départements of Haute-Marne , Marne , Seine-et-Marne , and Val-de-Marne . The Marne starts in the Langres ...
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Paris need not fear the boches at all, went that story, because the gunboat could freely cruise the sinuosities of the Seine throughout the city, the Ourcq Canal and the Marne through Charenton.
The trousers of bright scarlet cloth, the red kepis which he had hailed with such joy in the expedition of the Marne, no longer existed.
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.
On the day he brought his army across the Marne, he was marked for the Tarpeian Rock.
Joffre telegraphed Gallieni to lay charges under the bridges of the Seine immediately to the west of Paris and of the Marne immediately to the east and to post platoons of Engineers at each one to make sure that orders to blow the bridges would be carried out.
The Allies, however, soon halted the German army at the Marne River, and the war in the West settled down to four years of trench warfare--the static or at a standstill kind of war described in the discussion of Chapter 6 in this guidebook.