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Updated: June 14, 2025
"One hesitated to ask them if they wanted prayers because we knew they did," said one sweet woman back from the front, speaking about the time of the St. Mihiel drive. "We couldn't say how many knelt at the altar because they all knelt. Some of them would walk five miles to attend a meeting." It poured torrents the night of the drive and nearly drowned out the soldiers in their little tents.
It stands as a matter of record that foreign artillery and machine guns alone made possible the attack on the St. Mihiel salient and the advance in the Argonne.
Mihiel, which was captured while the neighbouring forts of Paroches and the Camp des Romains were destroyed. But again the Germans were prevented from pushing their advantage, and were left with no more than a wonderful salient which looked on the map like Germany putting out its tongue at France and resisted all efforts to repress this insolence until the closing months of the war.
The remarkable record made by the Negro in the previous wars of the country was fully equaled by that in the Great War. Negro soldiers fought with special distinction in the Argonne Forest, at Château-Thierry, in Belleau Wood, in the St. Mihiel district, in the Champagne sector, at Vosges and Metz, winning often very high praise from their commanders.
Three days prior to his release the American Army, operating on a purely American front, had attacked the Germans in the St. Mihiel salient with such determined vigor, and the entire preparation conducted with such successful secrecy, as to take the Germans by complete surprise, overrun all opposition and recover for France many miles of territory long held by the invaders.
But they seem to be all at sea in this matter. It's an entirely new thing, and they haven't found any way to conquer it." "It would be rather hard luck to come through St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and then to be knocked out by a measly disease like this," said Billy disgustedly. "Well, it hasn't got us yet, and let's hope it won't," said Frank.
On the 29th of April, the last-named division was engaged in something more serious than a mere raid at Seicheprey, near St. Mihiel; the number of prisoners lost indicated lack of experience, but the vigor of the American counter-attack proved definitely the will to fight.
On August 30 the Americans were given a permanent portion of the front, and two weeks later came the first distinctly American action in the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient a wedge driven by the Germans into the allied line. Infantry, artillery, aircraft, tanks and ambulances were gathered about 600,000 men all told mostly under cover of darkness.
In fact, I know the heir to the title a M. Boisjorand with whom I once had a fight when we were boys. They lived in the forest of the Croix-du-Soldat, near St. Mihiel, at La Motte-Noire." Renée fixed these names in her mind. "I have got all I want," said Henri, gaily coming towards her. And they went out together.
He shuffled the brown shoes, patted the straw hat, and eyed Archie questioningly. "I don't seem to place you," he said. Archie slapped the back of the evening-dress coat. He linked his arm affectionately with that of the dress-reformer. "We met outside St Mihiel in the war. You gave me a bit of sausage. One of the most sporting events in history.
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