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/ˈɑrgˌɑn/ /ˈɑrgˌoʊn/ Listen

Argonne

noun

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. Synonyms: Argonne Forest, Meuse, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation, Meuse River.

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"Argonne" Quotes from Famous Books

... was not all there, and they knew it. Some of them lay in the Argonne, or at Chateau-Thierry, and for them peace had come too late. But the Americans, like the rest of the world, had put the past behind them. Here was the present, the glorious present, and Paris on a sunny Monday. And ...

— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... make either minister or general; but as he has begun by failure in the one capacity, it will be our business to show him that he may find success equally difficult in another. At all events, we have nothing but this minister-general between us and Notre-Dame. He has taken up a position on the Argonne ridge in our front. To force it will be but an affair of three hours. Adieu, gentlemen." He put spurs to his horse, and galloped to one of the columns which approached with trumpets sounding, bearing the captured banner of the church tower ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various

... the Argonne drive, all luck seemed to have deserted him; for in the very middle of operations he had been sent back to the United States as instructor; and there the armistice had now caught him. Furthermore, then, before he realised what dreadful thing was happening to him, he had been politely ...

— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... to beat him at cards?" smiled Danny. "By the way, did you hear the rumor? They're going to break up the staff, Outsider policy, send us to Oak Ridge, Argonne, Shippingport, send ...

— Goodbye, Dead Man! • Tom W. Harris

... that had once surrounded Clerambault, one only remained, his friendship with Madame Mairet, whose husband had been killed in the Argonne. ...

— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain

Words linked to "Argonne" : Saint-Mihiel, Great War, battle of St Mihiel, French Republic, Meuse-Argonne, First World War, Meuse River, Argonne Forest, operation, France, military operation, World War 1, World War I, St Mihiel, War to End War