saint-gond

Updated: May 7, 2025

Fichtre! but that was fierce fighting! And what a general! He did not know how to spell 'defeat. He wrote it' victory. Four times we went across that cursed Marsh of Saint-Gond. The dried mud was trampled full of dead bodies. The trickling streams of water ran red. Four times we were thrown back by the Boches. You would have thought that was enough. But the general did not think so.

Henry Van Dyke - The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France