cantonnement

Updated: June 29, 2025

Well, at last, the atmosphere on the hilltop is all changed. We have a cantonnement de régiment again, and this time the most interesting that we have ever had, the 23d Dragoons, men on active service, who are doing infantry work in the trenches at Tracy-le-Val, in the Forêt de Laigue, the nearest point to Paris, in the battle-front.

Mildred Aldrich - On the Edge of the War Zone: From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes

The tramping of horses, the moving crowd of men, simply give a new look to our quiet hamlet. This cantonnement is officially called a "repos" but seems little like that to me. It seems simply a change of work. Every man has three horses to groom, to feed, to exercise, three sets of harness to keep in order, stables to clean.

Mildred Aldrich - On the Edge of the War Zone: From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes