marchienne-au-pont

Updated: May 17, 2025

So we sat in a half light and listened. They lived, the two Putzeys, at a hamlet named Marchienne-au-Pont, to the southward. The Germans had come into it the day before at sunup, and finding the French there had opened fire. From the houses the French had replied until driven out by heavy odds, and then they ran across the fields, leaving many dead and wounded behind them.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front