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The Forest of Argonne (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a long strip of mountainous and wild woodland in northeastern France, approximately 200 km (120 mi) east of Paris. The forest measures roughly 65 km (40 mi) long and 15 km (9 mi) wide filled with many small hills and deep valleys formed by water run-off from the Aire and Aisne rivers rarely ...
The Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is located near the village of Romagne-Gesnes in the Forest of Argonne, France, in the area captured by the US 32nd Infantry Division in World War I. It is the largest American cemetery in Europe, covering 52 hectares. A stone wall over 1 1/2 miles long encircles the cemetery.
Articles relating to the Forest of Argonne and its history. It is a long strip of mountainous and wild woodland in northeastern France , approximately 200 km (120 mi) east of Paris . The forest measures roughly 65 km (40 mi) long and 15 km (9 mi) wide filled with many small hills and deep valleys formed by water run-off from the Aire and Aisne ...
The Argonne Forest was seized by the Germans at the early stages of the war. They had set up defensive positions throughout the forest, using a string of networked trenches. These defences started with a roughly 550-yard (500 m) deep front line which "served as not much more than an advanced warning system". [6]
The Meuse–Argonne offensive (also known as the Meuse River–Argonne Forest offensive, [6] the Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign) was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles), was deemed too physically and environmentally damaged by conflict for human habitation.
Forest of Argonne in October 1915 ravaged by shellfire. During the two world wars, for strategic reasons, the region each time became the passage for the invading armies because of the narrow width of the Meuse and its deep valley.
The abbey is in the top right corner of this map, on the edge of the forest of Argonne. The Abbey of Monthiers-en-Argonne (also spelled Montiers-en-Argonne, from Latin Monasterium in Argona, "monastery in the Argonne") was a Cistercian monastery located in Possesse in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne in the County of Champagne.