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1 Chalons-sur-Marne ls a garrison town ol

France. on the right bank oithc River Marne. lt is an old walled town and the seal ot a bishoprle. and is ol great iilstoriczll imacrt- ance. lt was itnown as the Roman Catala- num in the Third Century; witnessed the de- teal ot Tatricus by Aurelian in A. D. 274; thc defeat ol Alemanni by lovinus in 266, and in tho district. the Catalaunian Fields, in 451, was fought out one 01 the filtcen decisive bat» iles ct the wand. according to Sir Edward Cl-easy. when the Romans and their allies. the Visigoths. defeat ed Attila and his lluns. The town successfully resisted the English attacks in 1430-1434: it was taken by the Prussians in 1814 and by the Russians in 1815. ln 1870 it was occupied by the Gar~ mans alter tra evac uatlon lr; ttactdahon of the celebrated camp cstahlichcd at Chalorus in T956 tr; I-lzwcleon lI!.

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2 'The little village in the dintath ls Grave-

|otte.in Lorraine. abuut eight mites west ot Metz; it gave its name to what has been con~ sidered the most important battle ot the Franco-German War. The battle was taught on llugust 18. 1870. and was' third in the scrlcs about Metz, totiowinn General i3a1aEne‘s

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ions to ellcot a lunctinn with the army oi General Machtahon. General Baerinc. alter two battles, and in tear cl '.Jci.'.l, out oil. felt

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bncl: upon Metz. und lina-l ab-mdnned all hope otioining General §'mol.in:acn The Ger- man forces, which consisted ol the armies of Steinmetz :md Prince Frederick Charles. and iwhleh were commanded ir; Klngwilllam in ipersen. numbered aoout 295,600 mon, and ,suffered a loss vt more than 20,000 in killed and wounded. Tho French, out of 160,009 engawed. lost nearly 600 oltlcert and more

1 than 13,! .P3 men.

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£\.Saa1u Pass. between Denon on the German

l ‘frontier and Nancy on the Frendr frontier,

|l -' 'which was user! wr the passage of the Ger-

man tr-was into France _and also bythe French

" into Germany at the beginning ot hostilities. lt

l ‘il true :twin artery ot travel from Nancy to ‘Sirzssrmrgandisadeopcnt throuuhtha l nmmtalnx. The boyz inthe picture are “walk- `_ ists"_ irom the university ln Stranbura.

X -ldtaan stil-`Halne. the last of the Ffeneti vil- lageson me frontier .and directly under the Duhon HB8. whiet\»_»i&5`nw the localitylot much Hitting. Theittie eldwornln, \vaahtn£|' her clothes atthe town punts. said she never had hasnt or England or the United Statee,

D! 5.Sminnact. inthe Domi Wilt, west uf Strasburg. ltislntlorman territory and was the flrlt village captured irem Germany by French and later recaptured by the Ger-

inans. sg 6 ClNy'|wt within the French irontler. and where the lint enaagement was taught en French lull. Village was 'bantured from the French and later recaptured' by the French. The photograph was taken from Gemm terri- tory, The Denon itil! lleback ot the vlliltlef

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