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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 479 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ARGONNE , a rocky See also:

FOREST

forest-clad See also:

plateau in the See also:

north-See also:

east of See also:

France, extending along the See also:

BORDERS, THE

borders of See also:

LORRAINE

Lorraine and See also:

CHAMPAGNE

Champagne, and forming See also:

PART

part of the departments of See also:

ARDENNES

Ardennes, See also:

Meuse and See also:

MARNE

Marne. The Argonne stretches from S.S.E. to N.N.W., a distance of 63 m. with an See also:

AVERAGE

average breadth of 19 m., and an average height of 1150 ft. It forms the connecting-See also:

LINK

link between the plateaus of Haute Marne and the Ardennes, and is bounded E. by the Meuse and W. by the Ante and the See also:

AISNE

Aisne, which rises in its See also:

SOUTHERN

southern plateau. The valleys of the See also:

AIRE

Aire and other See also:

rivers See also:

TRAVERSE

traverse it longitudinally, a fact to which its importance as a See also:

BULWARK (a word probably of Scandinavian origin, from bol or bole, a tree-trunk, and werk, work, in Ger. Bollwerk, which has also been derived from an old German bolen, to throw, and so a machine for throwing missiles)

bulwark of north-eastern France is largely due. Of the numerous forests which clothe both slopes of the plateau, the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief is that of Argonne, which extends for 25 M. between the Aire and the Aisne. For See also:

DUMOURIEZ, CHARLES FRANCOIS (1739—1823)

Dumouriez's Argonne See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign in 1792, see See also:

FRENCH REvoLUTIONARY See also:

WARS

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