Word: arlon
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...lines along the Maas and Moselle, three Allied Armies protected overhead by fighter craft and on the ground by anti-aircraft guns spotted along the roads, started from bases along the Belgian border. The French IX Army wheeled right, into position in the Ardennes Mountains. They settled down at Arlon near the Luxembourg border before the Germans got there. The British Expeditionary Force, 200,000 strong and placed in the centre, rolled smoothly out of the Sambre Valley, heading northeast for Liege and the Albert Canal which its advanced forces reached, festooned with flowers from Belgium's women, within...