Crossword clues for meuse
meuse
- Verdun's river
- River at LiГЁge
- North Sea feeder
- Scene of W.W. I fighting
- North Sea tributary
- ___-Argonne offensive of W.W. I
- A European river
- Flows into the North Sea
- 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
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meuse \Meuse\ prop. n.
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A European river, flowing into the North Sea.
Syn: Meuse River.
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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 River, Argonne, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation.
Wikipedia
The Meuse (; ; Walloon: Mouze ) or Maas (; ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea. It has a total length of .
Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse. Meuse is part of the current region of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine and is surrounded by the French departments of Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and has a short border with Belgium on the north. Parts of Meuse belong to Parc naturel régional de Lorraine. Front lines in trench warfare during World War I ran varying courses through the department and it hosted an important battle/offensive in 1916 in and around Verdun.
Usage examples of "meuse".
Rundstedt, commander of Army Group A, the main force which had launched the breakthrough over the Meuse, backed him up when they conferred later in the day.
Hodges, advanced with equal speed into southeastern Belgium, reaching the Meuse River, from which the devastating German breakthrough had begun in May 1940, and capturing the fortresses of Namur and Liege, where the Germans had no time to organize a defense.
On October 18 there was very fierce fighting in the Caures Woods east of the Meuse and in the Ormont Woods.
A great Anglo-French army rushed northeastward from the Franco-Belgian border to man the main Belgian defense line along the Dyle and Meuse rivers east of Brussels.
German attack through Belgium, called for the French First and Ninth armies and the British Expeditionary Force to dash forward to the principal Belgian defense line on the Dyle and Meuse rivers from Antwerp through Louvain, Namur and Givet to Mezieres.
Lord Gort, had joined the Belgians, as planned, on a strong defensive line running along the Dyle River from Antwerp through Louvain to Wavre and thence across the Gembloux gap to Namur and south along the Meuse to Sedan.
Von Hausen had troops enough to force the Meuse, drive in the French right, and threaten the centre at Charleroi, and that Von Buelow could cross the Sambre and Von Kluck encircle the British flank.
They were severely checked and withdrew behind the Meuse, while an unsuspected army of Saxons under Von Hausen attacked the right flank of the Fifth French army under Lanrezac which lay along the Sambre with its right flank resting on the Meuse.
Toxandria, in Brabant, insensibly multiplied along the banks of the Meuse and Scheld, till their independent power filled the whole extent of the Second, or Lower Germany.
Malcom several times traversed the Meuse at Sedan on a wire at about a height of 100 feet.
Some sixty miles from the Our, on the western edge of the Ardennes, is the Meuse River.
In this vast district watered by the Meuse is the town of Bouillon--a regular hole, but in my time it was the freest place in Europe.
A street in Louvain 202 Fixing on the white Flag for the dash between the lines 202 Refugees from the villages near the Antwerp forts 203 Arrival in Antwerp of refugees from Malines 203 At Malines--a good background for a photograph to send home to Germany 218 His Eminence, Cardinal Mercier 219 Fire at Namur during the bombardment 254 Effect of big German shell on Fort of Waehlem 255 Outside view of the Fort of Waehlem after bombardment 255 View of the Meuse at Huy 262 Refugees fleeing toward Dunkirk before the German advance 263 Graves of civilians shot by the Germans 266 A typical proclamation 266 Views of the Fort of Waehlem after its bombardment 267 Herbert C.
Wasted some time trying to get gasoline for the other motors, and then the long stretch to Namur, down the valley of the Meuse, and stopped long enough for a look at Andennes, my second visit to the place.
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.